Volunteering Quotes

No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric.” None has ever thought of its connection to its home place as “ecological,” deep or shallow. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament, and we can hardly escape the need to speak of “ecology” and “ecosystems.” But the terms themselves are culturally sterile. They come from the juiceless, abstract intellectuality of the universities which was invented to disconnect, displace, and disembody the mind. The real names of the environment are the names of rivers and river valleys; creeks, ridges, and mountains; towns and cities; lakes, woodlands, lanes roads, creatures, and people.And the real name of our connection to this everywhere different and differently named earth is “work.” We are connected by work even to the places where we don’t work, for all places are connected; it is clear by now that we cannot exempt one place from our ruin of another. The name of our proper connection to the earth is “good work,” for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing. Good work is always modestly scaled, for it cannot ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known. Good work can be defined only in particularity, for it must be defined a little differently for every one of the places and every one of the workers on the earth.The name of our present society’s connection to the earth is “bad work” – work that is only generally and crudely defined, that enacts a dependence that is ill understood, that enacts no affection and gives no honor. Every one of us is to some extent guilty of this bad work. This guilt does not mean that we must indulge in a lot of breast-beating and confession; it means only that there is much good work to be done by every one of us and that we must begin to do it.

Wendell Berry

You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.

Germany Kent

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. They show fewer signs of physical and mental aging. And it's not just that helpful people also tend to be healthier and happier; helping others causes happiness. "Be selfless, if only for selfish reasons," as one of my happiness paradoxes holds. About one-quarter of Americans volunteer, and of those, a third volunteer for more than a hundred hours each year.

Gretchen Rubin

There's almost always a church youth group at the soup kitchen. I have yet to see an atheists' youth group. Yeah, I know, religious people don't have a monopoly on doing good. I'm sure that there are many agnostics and atheists out there slinging mashed potatoes at other soup kitchens. I know the world is full of selfless secular gropus like Doctors without Borders. But I've got to say: It's a lot easier to do good if you put your faith in a book that requires you to do good.

A.J. Jacobs

When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.

Richelle E. Goodrich

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

Emily Gould

Try going out of your comfort zone and doing something for someone else.

Henry Hon

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.

Shannon L. Alder

We are a blessing to each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

Lailah Gifty Akita

If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning tops that splattered joy onto everyone they bumped into.

Conor Grennan

If we understand we need each other, we will keep together.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We live life not only for ourselves but for others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we give, the more we are blessed to keep giving.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life must not be lived only to make money.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God give you overflowing grace for every good work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A life dedicated to serving others is the life we should all aspire to live.

Auliq-Ice

Work while you have strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

Moutasem Algharati

Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

Germany Kent

Life is all we have, the grace of service to mankind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The better we serve, the greater the fulfilment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God give you the grace to do many good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I devote my life in service of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We can get the task done without being paid.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a service. Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Today, spend a little time cultivating relationships offline. Never forget that everybody isn't on social media.

Germany Kent

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