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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Seuss, Dr.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Teresa, Mother

The first question which the priest and the Levite askedwas: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
King, Martin Luther

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
Morley, Christopher

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
Parker, Seth

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Gibran, Kahlil

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Wooden, John

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
Hale, Edward Everett

Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.
Moore, Hannah

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Reese, Betty

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
Vonnegut, Kurt

There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Wharton, Edith

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Teresa, Mother

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; 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.
Shaw, George Bernard

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
Angelou, Maya

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
Tunney, Gene

Improvement begins with I.
Glasow, Arnold

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Huxley, Aldous

My life is my message.
Ghandi, Mahatma

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Chapman, Tracy

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
D'Angelo, Anthony J.

No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.
Knights of Pythagoras

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Eliot, George

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
Tolstoy, Leo

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
Unknown, Author

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Carlyle, Thomas

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Keller, Helen

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
Brilliant, Ashleigh

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Teresa, Mother

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
Berrigan, Daniel

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.
MacLeod, Fiona