Favorite Quotations ~  Service Open & Innocent

"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you." ~ Ruth Smeltzer

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Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help. ~ Ram Dass

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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 and relationship to humanity. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ~ Tertullian

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself. ~ Michel Montaigne

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl. ~ Joanna Baillie

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court. ~ Marion Jones

The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace. ~ Mother Teresa

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ~ Laurence Leamer, King of the Night

Make the world better. ~ Lucy Stone

You can start out with nothing and end up with everything if you are willing to serve by sowing your service as a seed. ~ Bill Winston

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