"Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization."

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Madeleine M. Kunin

#Skills Quotes #Self Quotes #Volunteer Quotes

“She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We canâ€™t get in and she doesnâ€™t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.”
“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”
“Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.”
“One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.”

Source : "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.
“There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country”
“The most important thing in life..”
“I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.”
“I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”

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