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Index to a Person's Character

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. --Abigail Van Buren (1974)

Compassion

Compassion is suffering -- the constant willingness to share in the suffering of others. -- Hubert van Zeller

Bad Situations and Great Deeds

Bad situations provide the opportunity for great deeds. -- Dee H. Groberg

Do Something

I wondered why somebody didn?t do something; then I realized that I was somebody. Anonymous

Evil Triumphs

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke

Mother Teresa on Loving Until It Hurts

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -? Mother Teresa

Everybody Can Be Great

Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fullness or Emptiness of Life

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others. To be a man is to matter to someone outside of yourself, or to some calling or cause bigger than yourself.? -- Kingman Brewster, former president, Yale University.

Emerson on Helping Others

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone Can be Polite to a King

Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar. Jim Shea

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