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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Lin Yutang.
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
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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 should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- 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
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
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
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
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
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
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
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
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