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    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.

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who read more

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.

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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.

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In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart read more

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.

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Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action read more

Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

by Mother Teresa Found in: Volunteerism Quotes,
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We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.

We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.

by Helen Keller Found in: Volunteerism Quotes,
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater read more

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.

by Mother Theresa Found in: Volunteerism Quotes,
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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.

by G. Donald Gale Found in: Volunteerism Quotes,
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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.

by Gurdjieff Found in: Volunteerism Quotes,
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