service

God never calls a person [into His service] without equipping him. I know that from experience.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience_These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. __n Repentance

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

May your heart open.May joy emerge.May love flow through you.May you heal and help others.

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

May we love, support and help one another.

In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man.

we must remember that the end of personal mastery is service to others.

You are not in Disneyland,_ he said. __he little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.

I understand you.__ou do not suppose that I have ever felt much.__or four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature; knowing that it would make you and my mother most unhappy whenever it were explained to you, yet unable to prepare you for it in the least._ It was told me,__t was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself, whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects; and told me, as I thought, with triumph._ This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose, by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested;__nd it has not been only once;__ have had her hopes and exultation to listen to again and again._ I have known myself to be divided from Edward for ever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection.__othing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me._ I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages._ And all this has been going on at a time, when, as you know too well, it has not been my only unhappiness._ If you can think me capable of ever feeling__urely you may suppose that I have suffered NOW. The composure of mind with which I have brought myself at present to consider the matter, the consolation that I have been willing to admit, have been the effect of constant and painful exertion;__hey did not spring up of themselves;__hey did not occur to relieve my spirits at first._ No, Marianne.__HEN, if I had not been bound to silence, perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely__ot even what I owed to my dearest friends__rom openly shewing that I was VERY unhappy.

There is, in fact, no safeword for chemical burns under one__ fingernails.

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.