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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

It costs you something to do good!

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

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.