Quote:	The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Author:	Norman Vincent Peale
Source:	Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale

Quote:	When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Author:	Norman Vincent Peale
Source:	Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale

Quote:	In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life

Quote:	The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations : 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life

Quote:	To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, 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 even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Author:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny, by developing the potential that the soul represents. When you fulfill your soul's destiny, you will feel "right." Conversely, when you ignore your soul's destiny, when you get caught up in your own self-interests and forget to care for others, you will not feel "right." Instead, you will feel empty and unfulfilled. During these times, you are neglecting your soul--you are depriving it of nourishment. When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find a way to "give back" to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness.
Author:	Rabbi Harold Kushner in the essay "God's Fingerprints on the Soul"
Source:	Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

Quote:	The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Author:	Aristotle
Source:	Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard

Quote:	When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Author:	Erma Bombeck
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	Hunger allows no choice To the citizens or the police; We must love one another or die.
Author:	W.H. Auden
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Author:	William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	What is the city but the people?
Author:	William Shakespeare
Source:	Power Quotes by Daniel B. Baker

Quote:	Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson

Quote:	The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson

Quote:	The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Author:	Helen Keller
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Author:	Charles de Montesquieu
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations

Quote:	When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
Author:	Chinese proverb as quoted by Norman Vincent Peale
Source:	Have a Great Day by Norman Vincent Peale

Quote:	You really can change the world if you care enough.
Author:	Marion Wright Edelman
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Author:	Winston Churchill
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
Author:	Virgil
Source:	The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation

Quote:	If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Author:	Lucy Larcom
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Author:	Margaret Mead
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Author:	Mother Teresa
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.

Quote:	Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from they hand no noble action done.
Author:	Joseph Joubert
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.
Author:	Ben Linder
Source:	Live the Life You Love: In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons by Barbara Sher

Quote:	Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind.
Author:	Ethel Percy Audrus
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.
Author:	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Source:	Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner

Quote:	How should one live? Live Welcoming to all.
Author:	Mechthild von Magdeburg
Source:	"Live Welcoming to All" by Sue Monk Kidd, which appeared in the September/October 1997 Weavings.

Quote:	If you live only for yourself, you are always in immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests.
Author:	W. Beran Wolfe
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Author:	W. Beran Wolfe
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Author:	Ray Lyman Wilbur
Source:	Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)

Quote:	Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Author:	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Author:	Sarah Bernhardt
Source:	Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Quote:	Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
Author:	James Freeman Clarke
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Author:	George Bernard Shaw
Source:	Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations

Quote:	The ready back gets all the loads.
Author:	Latvian proverbs
Source:	The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs

Quote:	The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Author:	Madame De Maintenon
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Author:	Charles Dudley Warner
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Author:	Herman Melville
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can.
Author:	John Wesley
Source:	A Grateful Heart edited by M.J. Ryan

Quote:	We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Author:	Ben Sweetland
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Author:	Albert Schweitzer
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Author:	Albert Schweitzer
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Author:	Rabbi Harold Kushner
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Author:	Dick Gregory
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least.
Author:	Charley Willey
Source:	The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook

Quote:	What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Author:	Albert Pine
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
Author:	Sallust
Source:	The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Quote:	No man can become rich without himself enriching others.
Author:	Andrew Carnegie
Source:	Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren

Quote:	You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Author:	Kahlil Gibran
Source:	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Quote:	Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
Author:	Albert Einstein
Source:	The Quotable Einstein collected and edited by Alice Calaprice

Quote:	Be the change you want to see in the world.
Author:	Gandhi
Source:	Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40

Quote:	Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.
Author:	Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
Source:	'Ensouling Ourselves' by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield

Quote:	One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
Author:	Elbert Hubbard
Source:	Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard