Accepting Quote by Peace Pilgrim

I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point…

— Peace Pilgrim

I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been…

— Pete Townshend

So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“When you live to lift the burdens of others, your own burdens become lighter. You are able to face your own trials with greater…

— David S. Baxter

I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a personal goal.

— Isaac Herzog

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on…

— Tony Shalhoub

As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service.

— Reshad Feild

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to…

— Jon Krakauer

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I…

— Emma Goldman

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain,…

— Steven Callahan

Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your…

— Anne Graham Lotz