1. 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
2. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.-Charles Dickens
3. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.-John Holmes
4. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.-Maya Angelou
5. You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.-John Bunyan
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6. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.-Audrey Hepburn
7. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.-Napoleon Hill
8. Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.-Swami Vivekananda
9. By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.-Aung San Suu Kyi
10. It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.-Barack Obama
12. No one has ever become poor by giving.-Anne Frank
13. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.-Abraham Lincoln
14. To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.-Abraham Lincoln
15. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.-Mahatma Gandhi
16. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.-William James
17. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.-Leo Rosten
18. Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.-unknown
19. Charity sees the need, not the cause.-German Proverb
20. Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.-Norman B. Rice
21. People never forget that helping hand especially when times are tough.-Catherine Pulsifer
22. Take the time to help other people without expecting a reward or gratitude is definitely important in living an optimistic life.-Krista “KK” Weatherspoon
23. Nothing exalts the soul or gives it a sheer sense of buoyancy and victory so much as being used to change the lives of other people.-E. Stanley Jones
24. Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.-Charles Dickens
25. To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.-Henry Ford
26. I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.-Jet Li
27. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.-Horace Mann
28. Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.-Booker T. Washington
29. Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond-Jessy and Bryan Matteo
30. Never underestimate the difference YOU can make in the lives of others. Step forward, reach out and help. This week reach to someone that might need a lift.-Pablo