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It is
not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile
one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts.
These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
-George
Washington Carver
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The
motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course--service. Giving, not getting. Your motive
must be
good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is
being of service. -Peace Pilgrim
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try to serve others. Don't even call it helping, call it service
because you are benefited by that. If someone begs from you
and you give them something, you shouldn't think you are
helping them. Instead, he or she is helping you.
-Satchidananda |
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One
of the great underlying principles governing our life is service.
Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work
in a spirit of service? Do we work for Life and our fellows?
Or do we merely work for self, in order to make a living?
-Henry
T. Hamblin
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| Often we can help each other most by leaving
each other alone; at other times we need the
hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
-Elbert Hubbard |
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| The value
of all service lies in the spirit in which you
serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service.
Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous,
and prosperous when it is filled with love.
-Charles
Fillmore |
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| If you're wondering when you should give to or serve
someone else,
I believe in doing it spontaneously, perhaps in a shared moment of
emotion. Or any time you feel like someone needs your support.
Whether you do it all the time, occasionally, or when the opportunity
arises, just do it. Reach out and give of yourself and your time.
I have seen, time and again, that happiness and enjoyment arise from
being of service in simple ways.
-Lucinda Bassett |
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| The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others
have an enormous advantage--they have little competition.
-Andrew Carnegie |
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you must
deny yourself and seek only to serve others.
God’s plan is more
beautiful than that.
You were created to express the will of God.
This means that your highest dreams and aspirations are of God.
By seeking these through the ways of the Lord you automatically
do
that which is best for all others.
-Bruce Gilbert |
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May no one who ever meets me
Have a meeting of little consequence.
May the simple fact of our meeting
Assist in the fulfillment of their wishes.
May I be a lamp
In the darkness of life,
A home for the homeless,
And a servant to the world.
Ancient Buddhist Blessing |
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| The only ones
among you who will be truly happy are those who
will have sought and found how to serve.
-Albert
Schweitzer |
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the most beautiful compensations of this life
that no person can sincerely try to help another without
helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served.
If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding
or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
-Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
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At the heart of silence is prayer.
At the heart of prayer is faith.
At the heart of faith is life.
At the heart of life is service.
Mother
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is to
help them help themselves. -Horace Mann |
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| Everybody can
be great. . . because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a
college degree to serve. . . .
You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love. -Martin Luther
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| Doing nothing for others
is the undoing of
one’s
self. We must be
purposely
kind and generous, or we miss the
best part of existence.
The heart that goes out of itself,
gets large and
full of
joy. This is the
great secret
of
the inner
life. We do
ourselves
the most good
doing
something for others. -Horace Mann |
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As a young doctor, I thought that serving life was a thing
of drama and action
and split-second judgment calls. A question of going sleepless and
riding in
ambulances and outwitting the angel of death. A role open only to
those who
have prepared themselves for years. Service was larger than ordinary
life,
and those who served were larger than life also. But I know now that
this is
only the least part of the nature of service. That service is small
and quiet and
everywhere. That far more often we serve by who we are and not what
we
know. And everyone serves whether they know it or not.
We bless the life around us far more than we realize.
Many simple, ordinary
things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the
unexpected
phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the
warm smile
or wink of recognition. All it may take to restore someone's trust
in life may be
returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.
-Rachel
Naomi Remen |
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replaced with the ideal of service. -Albert Einstein |
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We weaken the value of our gifts of service by
adding to them
love of praise of others, honor, or material profit.
Our goal is
simply
the love of God, without any other consideration
whatsoever.
Not
only does
this unseen service help the individual being served
and
especially the
one serving, but it also helps people who know
nothing
of them.
Seeing this act of unselfish giving, they are
encouraged
to do
little acts of kindness themselves. They
sense
that the real
motive behind the service runs far deeper than the
service act
and are thus inspired in their own faith.
-C.M.M.
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Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us daily.
-Sally Koch |
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One of the things I keep learning is that the
secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
-Dick Gregory |
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The
Sweetest Lives
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The
sweetest lives are those to duty wed,
Whose deeds, both great and small,
Are close-knit strands of unbroken thread
Where love ennobles all.
The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells;
The book of life the shining record tells.
The
love shall chant its own beatitudes
After its own life working. A child's kiss
Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad;
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thous renderest. |
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