Service is one of life's great joys. It's a privilege to be in service. It's a great relief, a gift, to be faced with a job that you know absolutely you must do for the benefit of someone else. As long as you give yourself to it. You don't need to worry about anything but doing that job well, and the satisfaction, when you do, is very beautiful. Claire Messud
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
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Cameron Dokey
God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.
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Spencer W. Kimball
Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold, ' but rather, 'How many people did you help?
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Thomas S. Monson
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we...
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William Jennings Bryan
I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end includes grave danger and...
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Anna Godbersen
More Quotes By Claire Messud
She wanted to remind him, whether his family was there or not. She wanted. And wanted. And endured in her wanting: the damp seat, the dry chicken, more champagne, the headache the champagne brought, the midges, the chat, his failure, no refusal, to look, look...
It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.
But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>And the sick must husband their resources...
Service is one of life's great joys. It's a privilege to be in service. It's a great relief, a gift, to be faced with a job that you know absolutely you must do for the benefit of someone else. As long as you give yourself...
I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
