| "Service
is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something
you do in your spare time." -- Marian
Wright Edelman |
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"It
is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson |
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"Live,
let live, and help live"
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To
share often and much...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have
lived. This is to have succeeded."
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Seek
not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it."
-- Epictetus (2nd century)
"Happy
were men if they but understood
There is no safety but in doing good"
-- John Fountain.
"Charity
begins at home, but should not end there."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)
"It
is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-- Kahil Gibran
"Complete
possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."
-- Andre Gide
"Kindness
is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
-- Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe.
"When
you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone
else. And it'll become like a wildfire." -- Whoopi
Goldberg |
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"Goodness
is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
-- David Grayson.
I
expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do
or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not
defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
-- Stephen Grellet
| "If
you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred
years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical
law and all life is mathematics." -- Gurdjieff
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Practice
random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
-- Ann Herbert
"Compassionate
the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having
looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise."
-- DuBose Heyward
"Kindness can
become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
-- Eric Hoffer.
"Concern
should drive us into action and not into depression."
-- Karen Horney.
"Let
us be kinder to one another." -- Aldous
Huxley, on his deathbed |
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"To
make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness."
--
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib (7th century A.D.)
It's
no use trying to be clever--we are all clever here; just try to be kind--a little
kind.
-- F.J. Foakes Jackson
"He
who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."
--
Samuel Johnson
Kindness
... loving people more than they deserve.
-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)