This document expresses gratitude to volunteers of the Geneva Reads organization for their contributions during National Volunteers Week. In 3 sentences or less, it thanks the volunteers for enjoying their work, says the organization loves having them, and quotes several other sources about the value and rewards of volunteering.

1. Geneva Reads Would Be Nothing Without You!
Happy National
Volunteers
Week!!!

2. So many of you tell us how much
you enjoy volunteering for Geneva Reads.
We love having you!
“Wherever you turn, you can find
someone who needs you. Even if it is
a little thing, do something for which
there is no pay but the privilege of
doing it. Remember, you don’t live in
the world all of your own.”
— Albert Schweitzer

3. “Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the
heart.”
— Elizabeth Andrew

4. “You make a living by
what you get. You make a
life by what you give.”
— Winston Churchill

5. “Volunteers are the only
human beings on the
face of the earth who
reflect this nation’s
compassion, unselfish
caring, patience, and just
plain loving one
another.”
— Erma Bombeck

6. “The smallest act of kindness is worth
more than the grandest intention.”
— Oscar Wilde

7. “Volunteering is the
ultimate exercise in
democracy. You vote
in elections once a
year, but when you
volunteer, you vote
every day about the
kind of community you
want to live in”.
— Author Unknown

8. “You may not
have saved a lot
of money in your
life, but if you
have saved a lot
of heartaches for
other folks, you
are a pretty rich
[person].”
— Seth Parker

9. “Everybody can be great.
Because anybody can serve.
You don’t have to have a
college degree to serve. You
don’t have to make your
subject and your verb agree to
serve…. You don’t have to
know the second theory of
thermodynamics in physics to
serve. You only need a heart
full of grace. A soul generated
by love.”
— Martin Luther King,
Jr.

10. “Volunteers don’t get
paid, not because they’re
worthless, but because
they’re priceless.”
– Sherry Anderson

11. “Remember that the
happiest people are not
those getting more, but
those giving more.”
― H. Jackson
Brown Jr.

12. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

13. “The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter– to
be productive, to be useful, to have it make some
difference that you have lived at all.”
– Leo Rosten

14. “Volunteerism is the
voice of the people put
into action. These
actions shape and mold
the present into a future
of which we can all be
proud.”
– Helen Dyer

15. “The quality of your life will be
determined by the quality of your
contribution. When you work to
improve the lives of others, your
life improves automatically.”
– Kurek Ashley

16. “You give but little when you give of your
possessions. It is when you give of yourself that
you truly give.” – Kahlil Gibran

17. “Every man is guilty of
all the good he didn’t
do.”
— Voltaire

18. “The more one forgets
himself—by giving himself to a
cause to serve or another
person to love—the more
human he is and the more he
actualizes himself.”
— Viktor Frankl

19. “There is no better exercise for
your heart than reaching down
and helping to lift someone up.”
– Bernard Meltzer

20. “The best way to not feel
hopeless is to get up and
do something. Don’t wait
for good things to
happen to you. If you go
out and make some
good things happen, you
will fill the world with
hope, you will fill yourself
with hope.”
― Barack Obama

21. “Allow the way to
your great work to
be guided by your
service to others.”
― Mollie
Marti

22. “If we help each other, we will gain more
kindness out of every single kind act that
we do.”
― Putri Agustina
Agustina

23. “It's impossible to be
involved in all situations, but
there's no excuse not to be
involved in something,
somewhere, somehow, with
someone. Make an ounce of
difference.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

24. “The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
― Albert Schweitzer

25. Thank you
for all you do!