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I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.—Stephen Grellet

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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.—Joan Borysenko

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 How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.—George Washington Carver

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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate—it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.—Leo Buscaglia

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When we grow old, there can only be one regret: not to have given enough of ourselves.—Eleonora Duse

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It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them. It is not what we receive, but what we give to others.—Evangeline Booth

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.—Joseph Campbell

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The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.—The Dalai Lama

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get … only with what you are expected to give … which is everything.—Katharine Hepburn

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Ask yourself, “Can I give more?” The answer is usually “Yes.”—Paul Tergat⁶

Published November 2011. Read by Simon Peterson. Music by John Gregory.

1 Job 31:17–28 NIV.

2 2 Corinthians 8:9.

3 Deuteronomy 10:17–18; Psalm 146:7–9.

4 Genesis 12:1–3; Galatians 3:7.

5 Building for Our Personal Eternity, DC post published August 2, 2011.