Volunteer on MLK Day of Service, Jan. 21
a giving person is the best you...
“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
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” ―Anne Frank
“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
"The practice of giving is universally recognized as one of the most basic human virtues, a quality that testifies to the depth of one's humanity and one's capacity for self-transcendence." -Bhikkhu Bodhi
"It is the rays of the Sun that make the lotus bloom. But does the flower make a formal request to the Sun to shine on it? The Sun rises of its own accord, and the lotus bud blooms into a pretty flower. Likewise, those who are in need do not have to petition good people for help. A person with satvik qualities automatically helps those in distress." -Goda Venkateswara Sastrigal
"...now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." -Paul of Tarsus
"...faith by itself isn't enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless." -James the Apostle
"There are seven people whom God will draw under His own shadow, on the day when there will be no other shadow; one of them a man who hath given alms and concealed it, so that his left hand knew not what his right hand did." -Prophet Muhammad
“If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?” (Simply act. Don’t think and fret too much. Act and get things done.) –Hillel