"I slept and
I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served
and I saw that service is joy. "
-- Rabindranath Tagore
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We ourselves
feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be
less because of that missing drop.
-- Mother
Teresa *
"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."
--
Mother Teresa |
Giving
to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and
illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and
all beings.
-- Lao tzu (570-490 BC)
Success
in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.
It's what you do for others.
-- Danny Thomas
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I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be
able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don’t
want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change.
And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
-- Emma
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Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors
do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in
one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be
dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.
--
Sojourner Truth (c. 17971883)
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"Everyone
must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society."
-- Kathleen
Turner You
shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about
their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.
-- Kathleen Turner
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"Give
help rather than advice."
-- Luc de Vauvenargues
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is
service to a fellow human being.
-- Lech
Walesa |
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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.
-- Alice
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"My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world."
--
Faye Wattleton
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Do
all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all
the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long
as you ever can.
-- John Wesley
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"None of us alone can
save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we
commit ourselves to do so."
-- Cornell West |
"With
every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
--
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds
to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
-- Marianne
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"As
we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer
food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves
spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend."
-- Joseph B. Wirthlin (1924-)
"Little kindnesses...will
broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow
man in many ways."
--Zadik
