#volunteer

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. They show fewer signs of physical and mental aging. And it's not just that helpful people also tend to be healthier and happier; helping others causes happiness. "Be selfless, if only for selfish reasons," as one of my happiness paradoxes holds. About one-quarter of Americans volunteer, and of those, a third volunteer for more than a hundred hours each year. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#health #volunteer #volunteering #volunteerism #age

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#armed forces #forces #know #other #protecting

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! ↗

— Kerry Washington

#afforded #african-american #college #could #ellis

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent. ↗

— Lee Haney

#eat #enforce #kids #most #must

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#eight #faculty #hours #know #minds

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#corps #crisis #fellow #fellow americans #helped

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security. ↗

— Mike Ross

#departments #fema #fire #flexibility #grant

Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#been #certain #charities #communities #energy

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. ↗

— John Foster

#during #festival #film #film festival #had