"You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out
are the moments when you have done things for others."
- Henry Drummond
   
"Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!" - Henri Amiel
   

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau

   
"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself
is to help others."
- Elbert Hubbard
   
"Make it a rule…never to lie down at night without being able to say, "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better
this day."
- Charles Kingsley
   
"Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything." - Walt Whitman
   
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted." - Aesop
   
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave" - Calvin Coolidge
   
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no person can
sincerely try to help another without helping themselves."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do." - Helen Keller
 
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such
a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
Old Indian Saying
   
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
   
"Keep hope alive" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
   
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
   
"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because
you have lived, THIS is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." - Marie Curie
   
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
   
"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go
hand in hand."
- Emily Kimbrough
   
"The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry man; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the man who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the man who has none; the money which you hoard in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help." St. Basil the Great

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