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Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

— Rumi

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

— Mother Teresa

Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men will soon awake in them.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

— Maya Angelou

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

— Abraham Lincoln

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

— Samuel Johnson

Be curious, not judgmental.

— Walt Whitman

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

— Dalai Lama

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

— Mark Twain

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.

— Immanuel Kant

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

— Nelson Mandela

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

— Charles Dickens

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

— Maya Angelou

Charity is a kind of love, a love that has learned patience.

— Albert Camus

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

— Dalai Lama

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

— Lewis Carroll

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

— Voltaire

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A life not lived for others is not a life.

— Mother Teresa

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

— Charles Dickens

We need to be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

— Plato

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

— William Wordsworth

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