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#1

“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: labels, names, power-of-words

669 likes

#2

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: failure, inspirational, success

274 likes

#3

“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

823 likes

#4

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

tags: charity, compassion, gratitude, helping-others, inspiration

1021 likes

#5

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work

2675 likes

#6

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: duty, helping-others, latin, self

712 likes

#7

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
― Horace Mann

tags: greed, volunteerism

402 likes

#8

“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

410 likes

#9

“It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, activism, fruit, goodness, make-a-difference

906 likes

#10

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: analogy, inner-beauty, life

1460 likes

#11

“Fiction is the best kind of reality”
― Isabel Bandeira, Bookishly Ever After

tags: fiction-vs-reality

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