Change Yourself the World Will Change for You

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.   ~Mother Teresa

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.   ~Anne Frank

Act as if what you do makes a difference.   It does.   ~William James

everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.   ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, and to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.   ~Leo Rosten

Live simply that others might simply live.   ~Elizabeth Ann Seton

we can do no great things, only small things with great love.   ~Mother Teresa

unless someone likes you cares a whole awful lot; nothing is going to get better.   It's not.   ~Dr. Seuss

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.   ~Norman Lear

being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing well is it useful.   ~Author Unknown

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.   ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)

I am only one, but I am one.   I cannot do everything, but I can do something.   And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.   ~Edward Everett Hale

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.   ~Robert Brault

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.   ~Sydney Smith

nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.   ~Edmund Burke

If you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one.   ~Mother Teresa

Never worry about numbers.   Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.   ~Mother Teresa

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