A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."
Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.
Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.
If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.
Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.
The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this they joined countless people around the world who volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'. These often unsung heroes understand all too well that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis.
It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.
There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.
My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.
Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.
I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.
Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.
As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.
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