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The only gift is a portion of thyself.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.  ~Mother TeresaCSS5

Charity sees the need, not the cause.  ~German Proverb

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.  ~Sally Koch

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.  ~Sai Baba

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.  ~Horace Mann

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.  ~Laurence Leamer, King of the Night

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.  ~Wilfred Grenfell

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho Road] was:  "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"  But… the good Samaritan reversed the question:  "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.  ~Henry David Thoreau

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.  ~Betty Reese

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It’s not.  ~Dr. Seuss

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.  ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.  ~Cicero

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope… and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls […]

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands.  You need to be able to throw something back.  ~Maya Angelou

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.  I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.  When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town.  I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried […]

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself.  But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.  ~Ernest HelloCUL

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.  Happiness never decreases by being shared.  ~Buddha

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson

You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.  ~Gene Mauch

Help one another; there’s no time like the present and no present like the time.  ~James Durst

I am going to give from every corner of my soul.  ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.comtwitter.com/HawaiianLife/status/3858199225

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.  ~Ralph Waldo EmersonCUL

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.  ~Saint Augustine

A bone to the dog is not charity.  Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.  ~Jack London

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  ~Anne Frank

Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It’s good to be blessed.  It’s better to be a blessing.  ~Author Unknown

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.  ~Author Unknown

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten.  And seeing them… he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"  God said, "I did do something.  I made you."  ~Author Unknown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  ~John Wooden, They Call Me Coach

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves.  You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.  ~Andrew CarnegieGCLE

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.  ~Norman B. RiceSG

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Veniceact5 scene1 spoken by Portia, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Don’t be afraid of outgiving God.  It is impossible to do that.  ~Charles R. Swindoll

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.  ~Albert Schweitzer

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.  ~ConfuciusGCLE

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives.  Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself.  For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be […]

Life is never so busy that there is no time to serve.  ~Author Unknown

Everybody can be great.  Because anybody can serve.  You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.  You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.  You only need a heart full of grace.  A soul […]

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.  ~Sydney Smith

My life is my message.  ~Mahatma Ghandi

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.  ~Author Unknown

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.  ~William JamesCUL

Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth.  Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice.  ~Byron Garrett

Live simply that others might simply live.  ~Elizabeth Ann Seton

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.  ~Lucy Larcom

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.  ~James Freeman Clarke

Look around the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ~Juvenal, SatiresLCD

There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  ~Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.  ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.  ~Tracy Chapman

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.  ~Frank A. Clark

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!  ~George Eliot

This is the true joy in life – being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote […]

I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.  ~Edward Everett Hale

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves.  This shows we are made to live by charity.  ~C.S.Lewis

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.  ~Nelson DeMille

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.  ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.  ~Kahlil Gibran

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.  ~Seth Parker

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~Thoreau, Walden, 1854LCD

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.  ~Mother Teresa

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others… And your very flesh shall be a great poem. ~Walt Whitman

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.  ~Helen Keller