Quotes about Service

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

It's been said thousands of times, in all faiths and philosophies. Know thyself. What may be less clear in these wise expressions is the reason we learn to know ourselves: we develop a knowledge of self so that we can give up the self and serve others.

Focus on serving others. ... No matter what is going on around us, we can attend to the people in front of us, to the issues confronting us and there, we offer what we can. We can offer insight and compassion. We can be present. We can stay and not flee. We can be exemplars of the best human qualities. That is a life well lived, even if we didn't save the world.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Wounded healers are GOD's Greatest weapons.