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| I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ~ Mother Teresa |
| How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank |
| Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy |
| The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~ Leo Rosten |
| Live simply that others might simply live. ~ Elizabeth Seaton |
| We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa |
| Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. ~ Dr. Seuss |
| It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. ~ Norman Lear |
| Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~ Author Unknown |
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| I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~ Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu) |
| 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 |
| It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. ~ Sydney Smith |
| Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. ~ Edmund Burke |
| If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa |
| Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~ Albert Schweitzer |
| He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~ Sunshine Magazine |
| 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 itself to making you happy. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. ~ Author Unknown |
| The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~ Nelson Henderson |
| While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. ~ Quoted in |
| The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ~ Laurence Leamer, |
| No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~ Knights of Pythagoras |
| Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~ German Proverb |
| In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~ Karl Reiland |
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~ William Shakespeare, |
| If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant |
| Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~ Norman B. Rice |
| I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~ William Penn |
| Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |