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    John Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    ― John Waters
    tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: helping-others, make-a-difference, purpose, purpose-of-life
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    Anne Frank
    “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
    ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness
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    Charles Dickens
    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
    ― Charles Dickens
    tags: giving, helping-others
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  • #5
    “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
    ― John Holmes
    tags: charity, compassion, friendship, generosity, helping-others
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    Maya Angelou
    “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: charity, compassion, gratitude, helping-others, inspiration
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “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, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
    tags: helping-others, service, volunteerism
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    John Bunyan
    “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
    ― John Bunyan
    tags: benevolence, charity, compassion, generosity, helping-others
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  • #9
    A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
    “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, blessings, compassion, generosity, giving, helping-others, kindness, life, success
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    Charles de Lint
    “I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”
    ― charles de lint
    tags: compassion, helping-others, inspirational, personal-responsibility
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    Isabel Allende
    “We only have what we give.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others
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    Mandy Hale
    “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: be-the-change, beauty, helping-hand, helping-others, helping-people, inner-beauty, making-a-difference, positive-thinking, setting-an-example, true-beauty
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    Mother Teresa
    “Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: charity, christian-behavior, compassion, helping-others, love, paraphrased, service
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    Horace Mann
    “Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: greed, volunteerism
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    Mother Teresa
    “Give, but give until it hurts.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: charity, compassion, giving, helping-others
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    Criss Jami
    “Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: beautiful, christ-like, compassion, consideration, divine-love, divine-works, empathy, faith, giving, god-like, good-works, helping-others, inspirational, jesus, life, poor, sympathy, the-one, unconditional-love, value, works, worth
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    Will Smith
    “If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
    ― Will Smith
    tags: goodness, happiness, helping-others
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    “Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”
    ― Michael P. Watson
    tags: helping, helping-others, strong, support
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
    tags: charity, helping-others, learning, life, meaning-of-life, need, purpose-of-life, richelle, richelle-goodrich, service
    77 likes

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    Booker T. Washington
    “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
    ― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
    tags: charity, compassion, happiness, helping-others, service
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: alone, comfort, communication, community, community-service, compassion, empathy, encourage, encouragement, give, giving, help, helping-others, helping-out, kindness, letting-them-in, lonelyness, lost, love, missions, novels, reaching-out, selflessness, service, share, sharing, stories, tears-together, transparency, vulnerability
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    Pablo
    “Never underestimate the difference YOU can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and help. This week reach to someone that might need a lift”
    ― Pablo
    tags: helping-others, inspirational, make-a-difference
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    Stephen Richards
    “When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.”
    ― Stephen Richards
    tags: giving-help, helping-hand, helping-mankind, helping-others, reaching-out, self-help, stephen-richards, stephen-richards-self-help
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    Michelle Moore
    “If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.”
    ― Michelle Moore, Selling Simplified
    tags: giving, giving-help, helping-others, selling, selling-skills
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  • #25
    “Service to humanity is service to God.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
    tags: faith, god, helping-others, humanity, humility, inspirational, kindness, leaders, mankind, mentors, mission, service, team-building, volunteerism, wise-words, work
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
    tags: be-good, charity, do-good, doing-good, good-in-the-world, goodness, helping-others, kindness, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, see-the-good
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