"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

— Booker T. Washington

"The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

— Albert Schweitzer

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."

— Rumi

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

— Albert Schweitzer