Loving the Dandelions by Daniel Roth - HTML preview

Chapter 13 - Quotes

Abigail Van Buren

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

Abraham Lincoln

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Albert Einstein

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving

Albert Schweitzer

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

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world

B.C. Forbes

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious

Bob Talbert

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best

Carl W. Buechner

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Theodore Giesl (Dr. Suess)

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go

Edmund Burke

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity

Fr. Jerome Cummings

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Garrison Keillor

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Harry Chapin

He sang from his heart and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang it just made him whole

Helen Keller

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Henry Drummond

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love

John Wesley

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can

Kathy Davis

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

Mother Teresa

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person

If you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one

Robert F. Kennedy

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope

Ronald Reagan

I'm convinced more than ever that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man

Shel Silverstien

Listen to the mustn'ts child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn't haves, the impossibles, the wont's. Listen to the never have's, then listen close to me. Anything can happen child. Anything can be

Draw a crazy picture, write a nutty poem, sing a mumble-gumble song, whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world that ain't been there before.

Leo Rosten

I've learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong

Loretta Gierzatlis

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Rebecca Falls

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories

George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

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