“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you’ll end up not doing nothing for nobody.”
Malcom Bane

“It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”
Adrian Grenier

“Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.”
Colin Powell

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.’ Hungry not only for bread — but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing — but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks — but homeless because of rejection.”
Mother Teresa

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
Anthony Robbins

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
Arthur Ashe

“Giving back is something that comes from the heart to me. It’s not that I do it because it’s the right thing: I do it because I want to do it.”
Henry Kravis

“Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.”
Erich Fromm

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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