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To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats,
is to see riders on the earth together, brothers and sisters on that bright loveliness
in the eternal cold--people who know now they are truly brothers and sisters.

Archibald MacLeish

Our highest calling is to the world around us, to the people with whom
we share this world of ours.  We learn about life through our interactions
with others, even if that interaction is reading words written by others.
While life in a monastery or convent, shut off from the rest of the world,
may be right for some people, we never get to know our potential and
limitations if we don't deal with other human beings, if we don't
do our "duty," which is the task before us.

tom walsh

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in
which he or she lives better and happier.  Bound
to see that out of that small circle
the widest good may flow.

A.P. Stanley

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring
than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest.
If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

Billy Graham

A child's kiss
Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad;
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich;
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being
for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

George Eliot

This is the true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of
a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that
the world will not devote itself to making you happy.  I am of the opinion
that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege
to do for it whatever I can.  I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
for the harder I work the more I live.  I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no “brief candle” to me.  It is a sort of splendid torch which I have
got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly
as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Unless we give part of ourselves away,
unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them,
we are missing the most essential part of our own lives.

Harold Taylor

Set about doing good to somebody.  Put on your hat and go and visit the sick
and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister
to their wants.  Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed. . . 
I have often tried this method, and have always found it
the best medicine for a heavy heart.

Howard

True happiness consists in making others happy.

Hindu proverb

Try to forget yourself in the service of others.  For when we think too much
of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent.
But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.

Sidney Powell

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The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper
to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected
towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

People must not choose their neighbors; they must take the neighbors that
God sends them.  The neighbor is just the person who is next to you at the
moment, the person with whom any business has brought you into contact.

George Macdonald

We will recognize that each person needs to nourish and be nourished by many
persons. . . . It is right, even necessary, to make yourselves available to one
another in new loving, caring, and fulfilling ways -- without the spectres of old guilts.

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Leo Buscaglia

If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together,
that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together,
that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being
where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.

Desmond Tutu