- “How our smallest efforts are magnified when the motives behind them are unselfish!” — Francis Gay
- “In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.” —Urie Bronfenbrenner
- “If you want to be great, you must serve willingly and love greatly.” — Cornel West
- “If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” — Betty Reese
- “I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable; to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” — Leo C. Rosten
- “If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”--Bob Hope
- “How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” — George Washington Carver
- “Instead of looking for a miracle in your life, look to see if you are the miracle in someone else's life.” — Nola Rohde Vollmer
- “If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.” — Ross Parmenter
- “On life's report card, attitude counts, enthusiasm counts, a commitment to lifelong learning counts, hard work counts, and helping others counts. If you go all-out, you will feel the difference in the quality of your life.” — Steve Lodle
- “However much I am at the mercy of the world, I never let myself get lost by brooding over its misery. I hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of that misery to an end.” —Albert Schweitzer
- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation." — Corrie ten Boom
Quotes on Helping Others
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“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.” — Leo Tolstoy Reflection: One of the central questions that philosophers and theologians have struggled with for millennia is the mystery of what gives life meaning. Everyone wants to be happy and fulfilled, but how can we tell what true happiness is and where it comes from? The ancient Greeks believed that the source of happiness was internal and could be cultivated by living a worthwhile life. They called this state eudaimonia. Aristotle described it as taking part in activities that draw on our talents and challenge our abilities, acting in ways that benefit others, and guiding our lives by principles and virtues. It isn’t enough to simply possess an ability or disposition--eudaimonia requires it to be put into action with deeds. The more we learn to put others at the center of our thoughts and actions, the more meaning and purpose our lives will have. Quote of the day:
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.” — Leo Tolstoy Reflection: One of the central questions that philosophers and theologians have struggled with for millennia is the mystery of what gives life meaning. Everyone wants to be happy and fulfilled, but how can we tell what true happiness is and where it comes from? The ancient Greeks believed that the source of happiness was internal and could be cultivated by living a worthwhile life. They called this state eudaimonia. Aristotle described it as taking part in activities that draw on our talents and challenge our abilities, acting in ways that benefit others, and guiding our lives by principles and virtues. It isn’t enough to simply possess an ability or disposition--eudaimonia requires it to be put into action with deeds. The more we learn to put others at the center of our thoughts and actions, the more meaning and purpose our lives will have. Vitamins for the Soul
A quote a day helps you remember what’s important. Here are this week’s quotes on service.
A quote a day helps you remember what’s important.
Here are this week’s quotes on service.
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.” -- Henry Ford
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”-- George Eliot “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -- Mahatma Gandhi “Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness.”-- Charles W. Eliot “What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people’s lives.” -- Oprah Winfrey “He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” -- Abraham Lincoln "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” -- Albert Einstein" “Be not simply good; be good for something.” -- Henry David Thoreau “It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”--Tom Brokaw “Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” -- Martin Luther King Jr. “Real living is living for others.” -- Bruce Lee “Service is the very purpose of life. It is the rent we pay for living on the planet.” -- Marian Wright Edelman “Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” -- Danny Thomas Quote of the day:
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank Consider: Every person has his or her own destiny to fulfill. Some people realize what their purpose is at a young age and others don't know what it is until later in life, however, we will all make a difference in some way to someone by the time our life is over. It is up to you to decide if you are going to make a positive or negative difference. Write down three things in your life that you feel will make some kind of difference in the world. They can be things that will influence all of humanity or even just one person. Either way is fine, but once you know the three things determined, take one step toward each this week! “Don't spend your precious time asking, 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.”--Leo F. Buscaglia
“During my long life, I have learned one lesson: that the most important thing is to realize why one is alive--and I think it is not only to build bridges or tall buildings or make money, but to do something truly important, to do something for humanity. To bring joy, hope, to make life richer for the spirit because you have been alive, that is the most important thing.--Artur Rubinstein “Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”--Viktor E. Frankl “Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.”—Ignazio Silone Recently I read this quote from George Burns and was so inspired by it I had to share it with you.
“If you were to go around asking people what would make them happier, you'd get answers like a new car, a bigger house, a raise in pay, winning a lottery, a face-lift, more kids, less kids, a new restaurant to go to-probably not one in a hundred would say a chance to help people. And yet that may bring the most happiness of all. “I don't know Dr. Jonas Salk, but after what he's done for us with his polio vaccine, if he isn't happy, he should have that brilliant head of his examined. Of course, not all of us can do what he did. I know I can't do what he did; he beat me to it. “But the point is, it doesn't have to be anything that extraordinary. It can be working for a worthy cause, performing a needed service, or just doing something that helps another person.” – George Burns “Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others--these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.” —Gerald Ford
“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular--but one must take it simply because it is right.” —Martin Luther King Jr. “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.”—John Wesley “Don't just look for a blessing, be one." –-Ladydell |
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