How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it! – George Elliston
I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it. – Michael Bloomberg
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. – Daniel Berrigan
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others… And your very flesh shall be a great poem. – Walt Whitman
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
It is more blessed to give than to receive. – Jane Addams
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. – Mother Teresa
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. – Sir Walter Scott
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. – Seneca
Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much. – Mahatma Gandhi
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike
Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. – Princess Diana
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. – Homer
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. – William Penn
To laugh often and to love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of oneself; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded. – Sir Henry Taylor
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