"In proportion as one renders service he becomes great."

-- Booker T. Washington

#Helping Others Quotes #Helping Quotes #Proportion Quotes

“Christianity isn't all that complicated ... it's Jesus.”
“Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.”
“One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.”
“It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?”
“Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection”
“What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?”
“A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.”
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”

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