Do not let even a single day slip by without practicing “random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” Make service an important goal in your life. One of the master keys to lifelong success is service to others and this will profoundly improve the quality of your own life. When all is said and done, no matter how much money you make, how high you rise in your profession, how great a parent you become, the quality of your life will be measured by the quality of your contribution. The purpose of life is a life of purpose and a life of purpose is created through constant service to those around us. The overriding objective of our lives stands high above all other pursuits and is simply stated: we are here to give to others. To laugh often and love much to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children to earn the approbation of honest critics to appreciate beauty to give of one’s self, to leave the world better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to have played and sung with exultation to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived-that is to have succeeded - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
