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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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