As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do.

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"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Awareness

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Awareness

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Awareness

"Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Compassion

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"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

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"So, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, you should do it all for God's glory."

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"Whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

- Jesus

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"Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God…Those who when given what is right accept it, when asked for something give freely and who judge in favor of others as they do for themselves."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

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"If anyone fulfills his brother’s needs, Allah will fulfill his needs; if one relieves a Muslim of his troubles, Allah will relieve his troubles on the Day of Resurrection."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

Service