Rewards Of Volunteering Quotes & Sayings

For things to change, you have to change. — Jim Rohn

[H]aving the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian. — Glenn Greenwald

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love. — Sri Chinmoy

My sanity threatened to take a holiday without me. — Maria V. Snyder

They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant. — Andrei Makine

The most dangerous man on earth is the man who has reckoned with his own death. All men die; few men ever really live. — John Eldredge

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity. — Richard Paul Evans

Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward. — Flora Thompson

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords. — Dean F. Wilson

Make A Difference Day is a great way to introduce kids to the rewards of volunteering. It's fun, it's focused and it's empowering to know that millions are motivated to do the same. — Kate Snow

We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart. — Thomas Watson

But surveying those words I realized they are mine. He is mine to protect. There is so much I've shared, and so much that's been crushed by the sharing. I never mourned it, because it never mattered. — Lena Dunham

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,
that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,
who is invariably the devil,
and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,
who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority. — Henry David Thoreau

It is one thing to be understanding of human weakness and the complexities of life, and another to accept ideologies that attempt to sunder what are inseparable aspects of reality. Let us not fall into the sin of trying to replace the Creator. We are creatures, and not omnipotent. Creation is prior to us and must be received as a gift. At the same time, we are called to protect our humanity, and this means, in the first place, accepting it and respecting it as it was created. — Pope Francis