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For he that contributes only to his own welfare soon finds little to work for. He that contributes only to the welfare of others soon finds too much of others and has lost the appreciation of self, or of its ideals.
…Know that the power or strength for any influence as related to the help of others must come from the universal source and not from self alone. For the individual may sow the seed, the Infinite must give the increase - it must do the multiplying. Man can detract, but he can add little to God's purpose in the earth save through the grace and mercy of God Himself.
Edgar Cayce Reading 3478-2 (see works of Edgar Cayce )
The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian physician
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are… Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
RJ Baughan
…the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care.
from The Trick to Money Is Having Some!, by Stuart Wilde (see other works by Stuart Wilde )
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Donald A Adams
The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) French playwright
For it is in the giving that we receive.
St Francis of Assisi (see works by and about St Francis of Assisi )
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
Abdu'l-Baha
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life – happiness, freedom and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Conway March
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist (see works by and about Henry Ford )
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (see works by and about Ralph Waldo Emerson )
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi (see works by and about Gandhi )
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin
Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters.
Maya Angelou (see works by Maya Angelou )
While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
James Joyce (see works by James Joyce )
Become a shining light to the world. Your suffering adds no value to the world whatsoever. Your joy and light blesses it. The greatest gift you can give to those whom you love is to love your life. The greatest gift you can give to those who are in lack and scarcity is to live a full and abundant life. The greatest gift you can give to yourself is to honour your life and the way you have chosen to live it.
Steve Nobel
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia (see works by Leo Buscaglia )
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (see works by Ralph Waldo Emerson )
A person’s world is only as big as their heart.
Tanya A Moore
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Lawrence G Lovasik
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