
“My mother wasn’t a very patient woman. If I complained about being lonely or bored, she’d tell me to go help someone, anyone. To this day, when I start feeling sorry for myself, I look for a good deed to do.”
Donna Brazile
more infosource: “The Smartest Advice I Ever Got,” O, The Oprah Magazine, May 18, 2010.
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category: advice, good deed, help, mother, mother's words, service, volunteer
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“You must give something to your fellow man. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”
Albert Schweitzer
more infosource: Schweitzer: A Biography, by George N. Marshall and David Poling (Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press, 2000), 299.
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category: humanity, service, volunteer
medium: biography


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