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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the women and men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands (quoted at the end of an e-mail from Georgean C. Johnson-Coffey) The heart of a volunteer is not measured in size, but by the depth of the commitment to make a difference in the lives of others. -- DeAnn Hollis Submitted by DeAnn Hollis Throughout your life, there is a voice only you can hear. A voice which mythologists label "the call." A call to the value of your life. The choice of risk and individual bliss over the known and secure. You may choose not to hear your spirit. You may prefer to build a life within the compound, to avoid risk. It is possible to find happiness within a familiar box, a life of comfort and control. Or, you may choose to be open to new experiences, to leave the limits of your conditioning, to hear the call. Then you must act. If you never hear it, perhaps nothing is lost. If you hear it and ignore it, your life is lost. --Jennifer James Submitted by Debra English, Volunteer Coordinator, HealthPartners, Minnesota, USA The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good. -Ivan Scheier (from Building Staff/Volunteer Relations) Submitted by Claudia Collier, Director, Volunteer Center of the YMCA, Mankato MN, USA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Theresa Submitted by Jenni, Michigan It is one of the beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Submitted by Dominica Larkin, Volunteer Coordinator, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, Canada To the world you may be one person, But to one person you may be the world.
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