A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as read more

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.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not read more

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.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that read more

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.

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love read more

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.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working read more

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. read more

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.