Water that's not moving becomes stagnant. And if there's not someone pouring into you, the pitcher gets dusty. A person is most satisfied and most useful when she is both giving and receiving. In marriage. In life. In friendship. With God too.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

When good people take you in and treat you good, you ought to try to be good back.

In God's kingdom, we receive life by giving it away.

Life supports what supports more of life

Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan---if even for a moment---and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...Walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver. ---Carrie Louise Hamilton, dedication page

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.