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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
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.
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.
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.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without read more
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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.
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.
Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one read more
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.
