Quotes to use in your Lift One Project Copy and paste any of the following quotes to add punch to any of your communications. "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." Helen Keller “I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.” Oprah Winfrey "Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging." Deepak Chopra "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." Mother Teresa "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." Albert Schweitzer "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." Archbishop Desmond Tutu "If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path." Buddhist saying "It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you." Cort Flint "True beauty emanates from a selfless heart." Cristina Munoz "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." The Dalai Lama "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama "The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." Hadia Bejar "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." Helen Keller "Goodness is the only investment which never fails." Henry David Thoreau Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King, Jr. "A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world." Mohammed "There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much." Mother Teresa "We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." Whoopi Goldberg "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Mohandas Gandhi “Don’t just think, do.” Horace “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax “For it is in giving that we receive.” St. Francis of Assisi “Deeds of giving are the very foundations of the world.” The Torah Do you have a quote you think would fit well on this list? Send it to info@liftoneproject.org