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  • One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

    "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)
  • Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

    "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.
  • Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

    Twitter post from May 26, 2010
  • Every problem that the country faces is being solved in some community by some group or some individual. The question is how to get connected so that the whole nation can solve problems. A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense; partners in civilization.

  • The truth is, my dad was a great driver. I mean, he could handle an automobile. He loved speed. He used to joke that his one regret was he didn't join the volunteer fire service so he could drive the ambulance.

    Dad   Regret   Mean  
    "Things My Father Taught Me: An Interview with Joe and Hunter Biden". Interview with Ryan D'Agostino, www.popularmechanics.com. May 18, 2016.
  • I am only one, But still I am one.

    "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.
  • To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

    "What The Founding Fathers Said About Success Will Change Your Approach To Life", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2013.
  • I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

    Volunteer   Duty   Felt  
    "Ramsey Clark testifies in embassy bomber's case" by Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2001.
  • If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.

  • I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.

    "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.
  • There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.

  • Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

    "Graduation Speech at Fashion Institute of Technology". www.seventeen.com.
  • Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

    Cutting   Long   People  
  • [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

    P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • For our international projects we developed an online skilled volunteer job board to help connect skilled individuals around the world who can help with the projects. This is the cost effective channel to achieve a wider reach, which you wouldn't have been possible without technology.

    Source: forums.juniper.net
  • You only need a heart full of grace

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press
  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Change   Hope   Courage  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.

  • What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

    Love   Life   Sympathy  
    "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.
  • Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

    'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)
  • When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

  • In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

    Booker T. Washington (2013). “Character Building”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
  • I'll go through all of [12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the election], but a sample: Volunteer to fight Islamaphobia. Join the ACLU. Donate to Planned Parenthood. Take down sexism and misogyny. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Missouri Press
  • There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

    William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.209, Courier Corporation
  • I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

  • Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.

  • Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own

  • Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.

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