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"If you are a person with big dreams and would love to support others in achieving their big dreams, then the network marketing business is definitely a business for you. You can start your business part-time at first and then as your business grows, you can help other people start their part-time business. This is a value worth having - a business and people who help others make their dreams come true."
"Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention."
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."
"Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position."
"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will."
"I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others."
"The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs."
"Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead."
"The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save lives and to rebuild communities. In this they joined countless people around the world who volunteer every day in response to 'silent crises'. These often unsung heroes understand all too well that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis."
"I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health."
"Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings."
"Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)"
"There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence."
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"The more we help others, the more we help ourselves"
"And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself."
"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others."
"If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent."
"All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors."
"Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when we are oppressed by sickness and become old, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?"
