I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. —Albert Schweitzer

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Philosopher, Physician, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

COMMENTS

Laura from Nevada DECEMBER 12, 2016
It's an endless, joyful journey- learning to serve is a greater gift to the one serving, than to the recipient.
Anonymous AUGUST 13, 2016
This is the lesson of mo
Kiyaz from Colombo, Sri Lanka JULY 21, 2016
absolutely thats true
Gordon from North Carolina MAY 13, 2016
FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (MINE) I HAVE FOUND THOS TO BE SOOOO TRUE
Stephanie from Westcheter County  MAY 9, 2016
very strengths based and hopeful.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us. —Richard Wagner
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. —Lao Tzu
I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish. —Chuck Norris
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. —A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater, ennoble it. —Christian Nestell Bovee
The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness. —Maya Angelou
There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do. —Derek Jeter
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. —Anne Frank
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. —Mother Teresa
Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry. —Ryuho Okawa
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save. —Annie Besant
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. —Maya Angelou
There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. —Calvin Coolidge
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. —Henri Nouwen
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. —Og Mandino

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