Comparing

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Silver lining

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Maurice Setter

Burn Down the Farm

I can't tell you how many people want to make a big positive change in their lives, but are afraid to make the leap. They don't want the discomfort, don't want to leave what they're comfortable with.
Leo Babauta

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Lost

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

You

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.

Anonymus

Be

Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

Care

Care for the small creatures and all else follows. 

sign at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo

Point of view

You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee

Enjoy

Stop living life for what's around the corner and start enjoying the walk down the street.

Grant L. Miller

Courage

The first step to getting what you want is having the courage to get rid of what you don't.
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Helping hand

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Swedish proverb

Give

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca

Need

You need less than you think and you have more than you know. 

Joshua Becker

Help

He who says he never need help, most does.
Malcolm Forbes

Give

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. 

Hindu proverb

Follow

The one who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd.
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Kindness - strikes again

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
Unknown

Tasting

Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.

Chinese proverb

Reveal

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

Intentions

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. 

Barbara Walters

Kindness - again and again

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
Arabian proverb

Kindness - again

No act of kidness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

I had to come up with two quotes on this subject, just to make sure you get it right :o)

Kindness

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
Sir James M. Barnie

Opportunities

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.
Sally Koch

Spring

A kind word is like a spring day.
Russian proverb

Give

What a child doesn't receive she can seldom later give.

P.D.James

Angels

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and wr can fly only by embracing each other. 

Luciano De Crescenzo

Dependency

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist.
Hindu proverb

Light

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

Life

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.
Unknown

Free

Do something for somebody every day for which you don't get paid.
Albert Schweitzer