"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving
thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."
George
MacDonald
Scottish
Author and Poet
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Everybody can be
great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You
don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of
grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American
Civil Rights Leader
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"All you have shall some day be given;
Therefore give now, that
the season of giving
may be yours and not your inheritors."
Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese
Poet and Novelist
The
Prophet Other
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A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a
stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened
her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman
to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good
fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few
days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is,
but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me
what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
"The
Wise Woman's Stone"
Author Unknown
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he
plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton
Trueblood
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That best portion of a good man's
life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William
Wordsworth
English
Poet
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"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give."
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Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese
Poet and Novelist
The
Prophet Other
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No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
Greek
Fable Writer
Aesop's
Fables
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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do
something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
American
Author, Clergyman |
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
The
Reverend Jesse Jackson
American
Civil Rights Leader
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Quotes
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and
hands.
Robert M. Pirsig
Author
of Zen
and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance |
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas
we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we
have done.
We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked
and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.'
Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only
for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection.
Mother Teresa
Catholic
Missionary, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
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“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know
how soon it will be too
late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American
Poet
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“By the accident of fortune
a man may rule the world for a time,
but by virtue of
love and kindness
he may rule the world forever.”
Lao-Tse
Chinese
Philosopher
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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we
do not do.
Moliere
French
Playwright and Actor
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So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
And no one is useless while they have a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish
Novelist
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Quotes |
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the
candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
The
Enlightened One
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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
German Theologian
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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares.
Hebrews 13:2
Other
Biblical Quotes
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American
Poet
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Quotes |
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior
motives. Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true
enemies. Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good
anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank
anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by
the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help
people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in
the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
Dr. Kent M. Keith
American
Author and Inspirational Speaker
© Copyright
Kent M. Keith, 1968
*Please note
that this passage, also known as 'The Paradoxical
Commandments'
is often attributed to Mother Teresa or to Bishop Abel Muzorewa.
We encourage
you to visit Dr. Keith's
website for more information about its origin.
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From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur
Ashe
American
Tennis Player, Activist
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca
Roman
Philosopher
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as true strength.”
Ralph
Sockman |
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
American
Educator, Scientist
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but
reveal to them their own."
Disraeli
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a
listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Author of Living,
Loving and Learning
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Better to light one small candle
than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb
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Other
Proverbs |
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I
can do, or any kindness that 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
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