Help your sister’s boat
Help your sister’s boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer
Volunteer
Give yourself fully to
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Epictetus
I want a different
I want a different world. One where I don’t wake up thinking I’m so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don’t want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, … Read more
With every deed you
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But I think what
But I think what we’re coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn’t have a nice ring to it. We call it ‘volunteers’, but we’re basically paying people to serve their country. And if you’re going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you’re going … Read more
Men are rich only
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. Elbert Hubbard
It is not fair
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
I told the government
I told the government I’d volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose. Edward Snowden
What volunteers bring is
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver. Edward James Olmos
That men should kill
That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon