Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. 

~ Shirley Chisholm

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

~ Steven Covey 

We have a spiritual practice of thinking of a fire hydrant as a saint - it's standing there waiting to be of service. It's a way to start reframing our relation to all the everyday things around us.

~ Frederic Brussat, 100 Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. 

~ Julia Butterfly Hill

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.  

~ Helen Keller

If we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change. 

~ The Buddha

When the bridge is gone, the narrowest plank becomes precious. 

~ Hungarian Proverb

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. 

~ A.A. Milne (via Eeyore), Winnie-the-Pooh

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.  

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.  

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures. 

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. 

~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant remembrance of the divine? 

~ Paul Brunton, Notebooks

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. 

~ Duke Ellington

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. 

~ Eckhart Tolle

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?"

~ Rachel Carson

To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. 

~ William Blake

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace. 

~ David Steindl-Rast, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous. 

~ Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Alchemical Wisdom

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. 

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.