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To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.

Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.