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“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
― Maya Angelou

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
― John Holmes

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
― Shannon Alder

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
― Warren Buffett

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity