J A N U A R Y
- We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
-- Mother Teresa
- At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
-- Achaan Chah
- In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
-- Sheldon Kopp
- With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
-- Pablo Picasso
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
- The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents
Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared
To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.
-- The Buddha
- I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
-- Edward Everett Hale
- "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
-- A.A. Milne, from The House at Pooh Corner
- In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods than by doing good to their fellow man.
-- Cicero
- Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.
-- Pablo Casals
- Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
-- Gretta Brooker Palmer
- One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime.
-- Dale Coleman
- Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.
-- Anonymous
- Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
-- Leigh Hunt
- Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.
-- Charles Dickens
- It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
- If you want happiness for an hour take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-- Chinese Proverb
- Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
-- The Dalai Lama
- 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 verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
- What really matters is what you do with what you have.
-- Shirley Lord
- You teach best what you most need to learn.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
- With songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
-- Isaiah 35:10
- 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."
-- Sufi teaching story
- We serve best when we hold dearly in mind the goal and purpose rather than our place in the process.
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -
even if what is published is not true.
-- Richard Bach, from Illusions
- My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
-- Faye Wattleton
- Only a life lived for others is worth living.
-- Albert Einstein
- When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
-- A.A. Milne, from The House at Pooh Corner
- A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-- Mohammed
- Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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