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There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Living Into the Great Paradox,
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.
I work to bring about my vision of the future,
which is based on my value system of what is right,
just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.
Simultaneously, I accept that my vision
is based on only my opinions and prejudices,
and I honor all points of view and value systems,
no matter how different from my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our opportunity is to visualize a kinder world.
To sing glad songs of tomorrow -
imagining a world of love -
of the whole world filled with love.
To offer our hand... often.
To breathe deeply and honor ourselves.
To pause and contemplate... just because.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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