I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."

- Kahlil Gibran

Compassion

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."

- Kahlil Gibran

Compassion

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

Resilience

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

Belief

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

- Kahlil Gibran

Love

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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

Service

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

Service

"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

Service

"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)

Service

"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