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• Service: The action of helping or doing work for someone.  Oxford Dictionary
• Service: An act of helpful activity; help; aid. Dictionary.com
• Giving,  Making a difference,  Generosity,  Caring,  Helpfulness,  Leaving a legacy,  Purpose,  Meaning,  Love

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Serving others is what we live for

• Life is for service. Fred Rogers
• What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot
• When life has revealed you to yourself as you are, your search becomes how best to serve. Life itself—your work, family, and every interaction—is a chance to serve, to connect, to find meaning in the moment and purpose in the play. Dan Millman
• You will see your life for what it really is: a small blip on the canvas of eternity. And you will come to see clearly who you are and the ultimate purpose of your life.” “Which is?” “To serve, of course.”  Robin Sharma
• The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. Joseph Campbell
• The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. Leo Rosten
• I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn
• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Mohammed Ali
• At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service. Mother Teresa
• One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in a spirit of service?  Do we work for Life and our fellows? Or do we merely work for self, in order to make a living?  Henry T. Hamblinx
• Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Marion Wright Edelman
• Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. Albert Einstein
• To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of humankind–this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke
• When I remember that the primary purpose of life is to feel and appreciate the presence of God, to live from a state of love and compassion, and to be of service to others, then instantly, like magic, I begin to feel at peace. Richard Carlson
• All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. Mahatma Gandhi
• The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer
• A life not lived for others is not a life. Mother Teresa
• Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving. Anthony Douglas Williams
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Service to others is a universal principle and virtue

• Principles are universal —that is, they transcend culture and geography. They’re also timeless, they never change—principles such as fairness, kindness, respect, honesty, integrity, service, contribution. Stephen Covey
• Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values– honesty, integrity, self- discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. Michael DeBakey, M.D.
• Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. Buddha
• Service is the virtue that distinguished the great of all time and which they will be remembered by. Bryant S. Hinckley
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Service to others is the ultimate spiritual practice

• Real generosity is an unfailing sign of spirituality. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Bread for myself is a material. Bread for my neighbour is a spiritual one. Nicholas Berdyaev
• My heart expands to embrace others. And so, I help because I want to. To lend a hand, an ear, give some time, concern, money – whatever seems appropriate. As I lose myself momentarily in service to others, I am nourished and find a nurturing inner peace. I let my heart breathe and beat for more than just myself. I become the vehicle through which the Great Mystery showers gifts upon others, because so many gifts have been showered upon me. Every act of kindness becomes a prayer. John Kehoe
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Serving others is our truest service to God

• Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Please man, you please God. Sathya Sai Baba
• Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor. Leo Baeck
• Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. Marcus Aurelius
• The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to make a show of it. Ali bin Abu-Talib
• In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs. Spencer W. Kimball
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Serving others is an act of love

• If you would not cease to love mankind you must not cease to do them good. Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach
• I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa
• We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa
• There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. Mother Teresa
• We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
• You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Amy Carmichael
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Service brings great rewards

• Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of love and service, these bring the doer a harvest of blessings. . . . When we serve and when we give, we open ourselves to receive life’s richest blessings, its greatest prizes, and its most enduring lessons. Henry T. Hamblin
• The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage–they have little competition. Andrew Carnegie
• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi
• The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served. Gordon B. Hinckley

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To help others is to help ourselves

• Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. Elbert Hubbard
• Always try to serve others. Don’t even call it helping, call it service because you are benefited by that.  If someone begs from you and you give them something, you shouldn’t think you are helping them.  Instead, he or she is helping you. Satchidananda
• I have faith that the time will eventually come when employees and employers, as well as all humankind, will recognize that thy serve themselves best when they serve others most. B.C. Forbes
• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A friend inquired if Gandhi’s objectives in serving the poor were purely humanitarian. Gandhi replied, “Not at all.  I am here to serve no one else but myself, to find my own self-realization through the service of these village folk.” Wayne Muller
• You get tired when you think you are doing something for ‘other’, when you think ‘other’ is other than you. You don’t realise everything you do is for you. You are the one who is benefiting. Your spirit is expanding back into itself. It is growing back into its fullness of Love. Mooji
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Serving others is what gives life meaning …

• Meaning is in contribution, in living for something higher than self. Stephen Covey
• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
• One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. Lewis Carroll
• You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein
• You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
• From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe
• So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson
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… and purpose

• Getting on purpose in life – by going within and discovering that purpose is about loving unconditionally and serving, and making contact with what is there about us always – alters one’s worldview dramatically. Wayne Dyer
• If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego. Wayne Dyer
• Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling. Frederick Buechner
• If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego. Wayne Dyer
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Serving others leads to sustained fulfilment, health and happiness

• The desire to have, to acquire and possess, is in principle insatiable, and rarely generates the sense of fulfillment and happiness it promises. By contrast, only the desire to contribute, or to give can reliably, when acted on, yield the true sense of satisfaction we all deeply need. The conclusion I draw from this is that each of us should be guided in our goal setting by the simple question: “How can I best make my contribution to the world?” In our own priorities, doing should always precede having. Only then will we have what we most truly need. Tom Morris
• I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
• In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. Karl Reiland
• Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. Ray Lyman Wilbur
• Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. Zoroaster
• If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. Chinese proverb
• In his research, Luks studied thousands of volunteers and discovered that they achieved a “helper’s high” that was very similar to what a person experiences after a long run. It’s a euphoric feeling that, unlike “runner’s high,” lasts for several weeks. Tim Sanders
• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that you cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The greatest life one can have is of service. Give joy, happiness, bliss, laughter, wisdom, prosperity, love and light to others. By doing so, you tap into the Infinite Source within ensuring that you will never have to do without these “treasures” yourself!” Lateef Warnick
• This is the true joy in life – being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. George Bernard Shaw
• I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore     
• No joy can equal the joy of serving others. Sai Baba
• It’s a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun. Randy Pausch
• Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. Lydia Maria Child
• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one’s self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy.  This is the great secret of the inner life.  We do ourselves the most good doing something for others. Horace Mann
• Life is a place of service and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy
• One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. Dick Gregory
• The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
• Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. Madame de Stael
• Service expresses the divinity hidden in man. It broadens one’s heart, it destroys narrow-mindedness, and it gives delight.  Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. Carrie Chapman Catt
• Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. De Stael
• Everyone has a purpose in life … a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Deepak Chopra
• Those who are the happiest are those who do the most for others. Booker T. Washington
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Service heals us

• Even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally nourishes our own hearts as well. It is not a question of who is healed first.  When we attend to ourselves with compassion and mercy, more healing is made available for others.  And when we serve others with an open and generous heart, great healing comes to us.  Wayne Muller
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Service brings an inner peace

• The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course–service. Giving, not getting.  Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect.  The secret of life is being of service.  Peace Pilgrim
• When I remember that the primary purpose of life is to feel and appreciate the presence of God, to live from a state of love and compassion, and to be of service to others, then instantly, like magic, I begin to feel at peace. Richard Carlson
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Serving others enriches and expands the soul

• The soul is awakened through service. Erica Jong
• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self- preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. Joseph Campbell
• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
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Service liberates our greatness

• Service is the virtue that distinguishes the great of all time and which they will be remembered by. It places a mark of nobility upon its disciples. It is the dividing line which separates the two great groups of the world – those who help and those who hinder, those who lean and those who lean, those who contribute and those who only consume.  How much better is it to give than to receive.  Bryant S. Hinckley
• Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. Marianne Williamson
• No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. Knights of Pythagoras
• 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.
• Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. Jim Rohn
• The measure of a man’s greatness is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves. John Hagee
• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. Henry Ward Beecher
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Serving others is the path to success …

• Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here. Oprah Winfrey
• All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others. Danny Thomas
• It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service. Albert Einstein
• It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing.  It is simply service that measures success.  George Washington Carver
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…  for serving others fuels courage, determination and action

• The more you care about others, the more confidently you act. There is nothing you cannot do, no defeat you cannot survive, no fear you cannot overcome, when you are concentrated heart and soul in helping others.  Robert O’Brien
• When you make a choice to be of service to others, you gain the courage and sense of determination that will fuel your efforts. With a solid vision in place, you also become less concerned with your individual fear or self-doubt and more committed to taking the actions that will support your larger vision.  Cheryl Richardson
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Serving others is a cornerstone of abundance

• When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. Wayne Dyer
• Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe. Deepak Chopra
• If you always give, you will always have. Chinese Proverb
• Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by- product of providing a useful service. Henry Ford
• When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek. Steve Maraboli
• Abundance doesn’t follow giving until giving becomes its own reward. Jan Denise
• Giving is the secret of abundance. Swami Sivananda
• If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. Mark Twain
• No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
• What I spent I had; what I saved I lost; what I gave, I have. German motto
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Serving others is a way of making a difference

• The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings—first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world. Charles W. Eliot
• Declare yourself to be a contribution. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why. Roz & Ben Zander
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
• Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James
• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Seuss
• I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. Edward Everett Hale
• See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects. Robert Brault
• Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others…. The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. Gordon B. Hinckley
• The willingness to serve makes you a better person…and the world a better place.
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Service allows us to evolve and awaken to our higher self

• The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mohandas Gandhi
• There is a higher purpose to your life, a special contribution you came to make. Part of your reason for coming to earth is to evolve yourself as well as to serve humanity in some way. We will call the process of evolving yourself your life purpose, and the service you came to offer humanity your life’s work. They are intertwined, because as you serve others you will naturally evolve yourself. As you evolve and radiate more light, you automatically serve others. Everything you do to evolve yourself and carry out your life’s work is an act of aligning with the Higher Will and your Higher Self. Sanaya Roman
• The soul is awakened through service. Erica Jong
• Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. Ramana Maharshi
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Service raises our level of consciousness

• Selfless service is also supportive of the evolution of consciousness. David R. Hawkins
• As we move up in lovingness, our doingness is less and less preoccupied with self-service and becomes more and more oriented to being of service to others. David R. Hawkins
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True service expects nothing in return

• There is a big difference between service and working for the sake of getting something. When you serve, you are not tied to the outcome. You are not invested in what people do as a result of what you do, or what people think about what you are doing.  You give what you have because it makes you feel good.  You give what you have because you know that the unique way in which you do what you do will make someone else feel good.  In situations when your service is not rewarded by monetary or public recognition, you are not depleted or defeated. You are encouraged to take your service to a higher level. You are inspired to pour more love into your work. Iyanla Vanzant
• We weaken the value of our gifts of service by adding to them love of praise of others, honor, or material profit. Our goal is simply the love of God, without any other consideration whatsoever. M.M.
• It wasn’t the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion — these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough. Scott O’Grady
• The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service. Peace Pilgrim
• When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy. Steve Maraboli
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True service is done for the pure joy of it

• Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. Mahatma K. Gandhi
• You must render service out of spontaneous urge from within, with a heart filled with love. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky. Santosh Kalwar
• To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl S. Buck
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True service is done as an expression of love

• It is said that there are five ways to express and experience love: gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and physical touch. We all will place the list in differing priorities and often we express love in the way that we would like to receive it, not considering or realising that our partner might need something different. Spend some time discussing and try to talk your partner’s language rather than your own. Rachel Buchanan
• Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky. Santosh Kalwar
• The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love. Charles Fillmore
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Small opportunities for service surround us daily

• Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. Sally Koch
• As a young doctor, I thought that serving life was a thing of drama and action and split-second judgment calls. A question of going sleepless and riding in ambulances and outwitting the angel of death.  A role open only to those who have prepared themselves for years.  Service was larger than ordinary life, and those who served were larger than life also.  But I know now that this is only the least part of the nature of service.  That service is small and quiet and everywhere.  That far more often we serve by who we are and not what we know.  And everyone serves whether they know it or not.  We bless the life around us far more than we realize.  Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways:  the unexpected phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the warm smile or wink of recognition.  All it may take to restore someone’s trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove. Rachel Naomi Remen
• The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love. Charles Fillmore
• Small service is true service. … The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. William Wordsworth
• Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. Jean Vanier
• If you’re wondering when you should give to or serve someone else, I believe in doing it spontaneously, perhaps in a shared moment of emotion. Or any time you feel like someone needs your support. Whether you do it all the time, occasionally, or when the opportunity arises, just do it.  Reach out and give of yourself and your time. I have seen, time and again, that happiness and enjoyment arise from being of service in simple ways. Lucinda Bassett
• Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug.   It’s these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition. Richelle E. Goodrich
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Ask yourself “How may I serve?”

• Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Contemplate like God does, with thoughts of ‘How may I serve?’ rather than, ‘What’s in it for me?’ Wayne Dyer
• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?” Martin Luther King, Jr
• Each of us should be guided in our goal setting by the simple question: “How can I best make my contribution to the world?” Tom Morris
• What do I love to do? How can I use what I love to do to help the world around me? Susan Jeffers
• Ask yourself often: “What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this situation ?” Eckhart Tolle
• What if you asked, “What gifts do I have, right now, that can be of service to others?” Michael Jeffreys
• Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as a change in the questions we’ve been asking ourselves. Instead of What do I need? we ask, How can I serve? Instead of What am I getting out of this? we start to ask, What can I bring to this situation to promote the highest possible outcome for everyone involved? David Simon

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Combine your passion (what you love to do) with acts of service to others

• Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death…Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated – what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph. Oprah Winfrey
• Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling. Frederick Buechner
• Find a form of service that calls to you, that suits your abilities, aptitudes, qualities, and interests, that makes time fly, that draws forth your best, that tells you you’ve arrived home and found yourself. Dan Millman
• Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service. Swami Ramdas
• The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. Oprah Winfrey
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Combine your gifts and talents with acts of service

• We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place or not to bother. Jane Goodall
• When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma. Deepak Chopra
• Whatever you have received more than others–in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life–all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life. Albert Schweitzer
• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.  Thomas Kinkade
• I will make a list of my unique talents. Then I will list all the things that I love to do while expressing my unique talents. When I express my unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, I lose track of time and create abundance in my life as well as in the lives of others. I will ask myself daily, “How can I serve?” and “How can I help?” The answers to these questions will allow me to help and serve my fellow human beings with love. Deepak Chopra
• Everybody has a strength to share. If we can tap into that – if people can find ways to contribute whatever their particular unique talent or gift is, then, that really can change the world. Bill Shore
• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.   
• Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer. Louise Hay
• Let your purpose involve creating something of value for others. Rahul Singh
• I shall strive to make the most of my talents, to be of service, to create value, and to give back to the world. Marelisa Fabrega
• If you are suffering right now because you feel that there is something that you want that you don’t have, notice that this comes from lack. Instead, what if you turned it around? What if you asked, “What gifts do I have, right now, that can be of service to others?” In other words, you go from a desire to get, to a desire to give. Giving opens the heart, wanting closes it. So when you give, all benefit! Michael Jeffreys
• Use your signature strengths and virtues in the service of something much larger than you are. Martin Seligman
• Find a form of service that calls to you, that suits your abilities, aptitudes, qualities, and interests, that makes time fly, that draws forth your best, that tells you you’ve arrived home and found yourself. Dan Millman
• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.  Pablo Picasso
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See your work as a form of service

• It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work’s sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life. Henry T. Hamblin
• Work done in the true spirit of service is considered as worship. Baha Allah
• Working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life. Henry T. Hamblin
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Do what you can, no matter how little

• If you can’t do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve. John Ortberg
• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can. Sydney Smith
• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke
• If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
• Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. Mother Teresa
• Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
• I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.
• Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. Thérèse de Lisieux

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Serve from a place of silence

• Silence is a great aid in service; the more you are able to listen, the greater help you can be–energy escapes when you talk. And when you have achieved serenity, you will benefit others by your presence. When your inner noise is silenced, you will have a quick, clear perspective on all human situations; you will be able to reach out effectively in generosity and compassion. Andrew DaPassano
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Serve from a place of presence

• When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. K.S. Iyengar
• Zen Buddhists define their task as ‘infinite gratitude for the past. Infinite service to the present. Infinite responsibility to the future.’ Stewart Brand
• Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. Ramana Maharshi
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Serve from a place of self-honoring

• You cannot say that you have mastered love until you include yourself in its embrace. If you make everyone in your life happy but yourself, you have missed the point of living and loving. Self-honoring is the beginning of true service. When you practice self-nurturing, others around you will catch the energy and you will create a wave of well- being that far supersedes the illusory benefits of self- sacrifice. Alan Cohen
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• I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison
• A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs. Robert Townsend
• Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed. Mwai Kibaki
• Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many. Bible
• Good leaders must first become good servants. Robert Greenleaf
• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Max DePree
• Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve. William Paul Young
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• The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. Laurence Leamer

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