<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Volunteerism - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60966]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60955]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60946]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60943]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60943</guid></item></channel></rss>