Are you too busy to lend a helping hand to
neighbors and friends? If so, you need to slow down and reevaluate your
priorities. And while you're at it, consider the quotations that follow.
A Better World Starts With
You
"How
wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve
the world."
Anne Frank
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do
in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in
vain."
Helen Keller
"It is enough that I am of value to somebody today."
Hugh Prather
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
Loretta Scott
Being a Good Neighbor
"If you’re too busy to give your neighbor a helping hand, then you’re
just too darned busy."
Marie T. Freeman
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The impersonal government can never replace the helping hand of a
neighbor."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our
own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us."
Thurgood Marshall
And Finally
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to
die."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have
the worst kind of heart trouble."
Bob Hope
