"Quotes"

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness.
If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.
It is not complicated but it takes courage.
It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

- Pablo Casals.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- Shirley Lord

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My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

-Faye Wattleton.

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After the verb "to love", the verb, "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

- Bertha Von Suttner.

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Only a life lived for others is worth living.

- Albert Einstein.

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It's the small things that are hard to do.

- John B. Flannagan.

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So many gods,

so many creeds,

So many paths that wind and wind,

While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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To give without any reward,or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods

Than by doing good to their fellow man.

- Cicero

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When you are kind to someone in trouble,

you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else.

And it'll become like a wildfire.

- Whoopi Goldberg.

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Let a good person do good deeds
with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

- Shalom Rokeach.

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Life's more persistent and urgent question is,

What are you doing for others?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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He who wishes to secure the good of others
Has already secured his own.

- Confucious.

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Sympathy: Two hearts tugging at one load.

- Charles H. Parkhurst.

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The ocean, King of mountains and the mighty continents
Are not heavy burden to bear when compared
To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

- The Buddha.

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Past the seeker as he prayed,came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten.

And seeing them, the holy one went down into deep prayer and cried,

"Great God, how it is that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"

And out of the long silence, God said,

"I did do something. I made you."

- Sufi teaching story.

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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

- Achaan Chah.

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In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

- Sheldon Kopp.

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When it comes to getting things done,
we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

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Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved.

- Anonymous.

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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things
even if we do not get anything in return.

It is the joy of our life to do them.

When we do good things from this inner desire,

there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

- Emannuel Swedenborg

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A person who seeks help for a friend, while needy himself, will be answered first.

- the Talmud.

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Service is the rent we pay for being.

It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

- Marian Wright Edelman.

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Time is the one commodity above all that is our true possession ....
Time's most important quality is that it passes, that we have only a finite amount.

Therefore, be aware of its value and know that when you give your time, you're giving of you life.

- Daphne Rose Kingma.

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Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

- the Dalai Lama.

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be.

Become one yourself!

- Marcus Aurelius.

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For us is only the trying, The rest is not our business.

- T.S. Eliot.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

- Gandhi.

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The perfume of sandalwood,
the scent of rosebay and jasmine,
travel only as far as the wind.

But the fragance of goodness travels with us through all the worlds.

Like garlands woven from a heap of flowers,
fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

- the Buddha.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

- Mother Teresa.

Good will is the best charity.

- Yiddish proverb.

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Whoever performs only his duty is not doing his duty.

- Bahya ibn Pakuda.

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

- George Eliot.

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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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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEswan.

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The end results of wisdom is ... good deeds.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good;
and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

- Marcus Aurelius.

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get ....
Only what you are expecting to give.

- Katharine Hepburn.

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The world is in desperate need of human beings
whose own level of growth is sufficient to enable them
to learn to live and work with others
cooperatively and lovingly, to care for others.

Not for what those others can do for you
or for what they think of you,
but rather in terms of what you can do for them.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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The fragance of the rose lingers on the hand of the giver.

- Anonymous.

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Giving is so often thought of in terms of the things we give,
but our greatest giving is of our time,
and kindness, and even comfort for those who need it.
We look on these gifts as unimportant ... until we need them.

- Joyce Sequichie Hifler.

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We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

- Aharaon David Gordon.

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It is godlike for mortal to assist mortal.

- Pliny the Elder.

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Say little and do much.

- Shammai.

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Be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

- John Watson.

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When I was young, I admired clever people.

Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

- Abraham Heschel.

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It's amazing how much people can get done
if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

- Sandra Swinney.

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To live, let live and help live.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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When you become light and you radiate, there is no darkness ...

If you burn yourself, you will radiate and will spread light.

The job of the human being is to radiate through the finite self the infinite light.

- Yogi Bhajan.

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Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

- George Bernard Shaw.

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" I can cope"
( a support organization for people living with cancer)
When we come to the edge Of all the light we have
And we must take a step into The darkness of the unknown,
We must believe one of two things:
Either we will find something Firm to stand on
Or we will be taught to fly.

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You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly

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I surrender my body, to my desires.
I surrender my heart, to my love.
I surrender my soul, to my God.
But I surrender myself, to no one!
Love Me or Hate Me.
I am still going to be ME!

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Life isn't about being brave, It's about having the courage to continue living.

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It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody see's but you.

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If he is dumb enough to walk away, Be smart enough to let him go.

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Fate determines who enters your life, Your actions decide who stay.

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It always rains the hardest on the people that deserve the sun.

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Every person I know has got a right to say,
"Put The Past Away."

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Only the people who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world, Actually do.

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You don't forgive people because you are weak,
You forgive them because you are strong enough
to understand that people make mistakes.

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We'd never know what's wrong without the pain,
sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.

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Life isn't supoosed to be easy, It's supposed to be worth it.

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I'd rather be hated for who I am, Then loved for who I'm not.

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The hardest battle you're ever going to fight,
Is the battle to just be yourself.

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"Always Remember You're Unique, Just Like Everyone Else!"

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"I Never Knew Why Anyone Took Me Seriously: I NEVER DID!"

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"The More You Disapprove, The More It Is Fun For Me!"

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"Ignorance Is The Greatest Disability!"

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"You Laugh Because I Am Different,
I Laugh Because You Are All The Same"

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"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend"

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Sometimes we put up walls, not to keep people out,
but to see who cares enough to knock them down

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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes
of those who diffuse it:
it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

-G.Elliot.

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Si tu Dios es judío,

tu coche japonés,

tu pizza italiana,

tu gas argelino,

tu café brasileño,

tu reloj es suizo,

tus cifras árabes,

tus letras latinas...

¿Como te atreves a llamar a tu vecino extranjero?

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"If you understand, or if you don't If you believe, or if you doubt
There is a Universal Justice And the eyes of Truth Are always watching You

-Enigma"

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

Charles Caleb Colton

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We enjoy warm because we know cold.
We value light because we know darkness
  We understand happiness because we know sadness.

-David Weatherford.

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A Strong Woman Is One Who Feels Deeply
Loves Fiercely.
Her Tears Flow Just As Abundantly As Her Laughter,
In Her Essence ... She Is A Gift To The World

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I try to never compared myself to others
because I feel it will only limit me to what they can do
and therefore hold me back from what I am capable of.

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May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you,
the Marines protect you and Heaven accept you.

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"I love you not for who you are,
but for how you make me feel when I am with you."

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"A TRUE FRIEND:
Scolds like a dad.
Cares like a mom.
Teases like a sister.
Irritates like a brother.
And finally...
Loves you more than a lover."

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"Have u ever wondered what hurts worse?

Saying something or wishing you hadn't
or saying nothing and wishing you had"

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Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes is the little voice @ the end of the day that says
 I'll try again tomorrow

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Never approach a Bull from the front

A Horse from the rear

Or a fool from any Direction

-Finger Eleven

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"The Greatest gift a woman can give a Man is her Love.
His worst nightmare when it is not forever."

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.