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There is no good in extravagance, however, there can never be extravagance in good deeds.
– Prophet Mohammad

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Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
– Washington Irving

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If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
– Bob Hope

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We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
– Kahlil Gibran

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
– Mother Teresa

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot

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Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
– Dalai Lama

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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in.
– Abraham Lincoln

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It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
– Mother Teresa

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Generosity consists not the sum given,
But the manner in which it is bestowed.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
– Mother Teresa

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead

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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
– John Bunyan

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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
– Muhammad Ali

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I would rather have it said, ‘He lived usefully,’ than, ‘He died rich.’

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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is from the overflow of our cup that we give off our best to others.
– Adiela Akoo

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Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
– Norman B. Rice

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Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
– Elizabeth Andrew

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You may never know what results come of your action,
But if you do nothing there will be no result.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
– D. Elton Trueblood

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The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
– Claudio Hummes

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May your charity increase as much as your wealth.

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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
– Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born missionary.

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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.

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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

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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

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
– Saint Augustine

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He who wished to secure the good of others,
Has already secured his own.
– Confucius

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It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
– Tom Brokaw

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
– Princess Diana

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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

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
– Edmund Burke

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
– Buddha

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Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same – with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.
– Mother Teresa

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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
– Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Psychoanalyst and social philosopher.

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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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Give, but give until it hurts.
– Mother Teresa

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When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.

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No one has ever become poor by giving.
– Anne Frank

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
– St. Francis of Assisi

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One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
– Aristotle

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If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

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An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth – love and prayer.
– Mother Teresa

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
– Jack London

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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

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