Quotes About Giving

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about kindness.

People like to give the sort of presents they

Be more generous to others than you would ever expect anyone to be to you.

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can get from each other and that's determined by how much you're giving to each other. But it all starts within our self and then it spreads to those around us, good and bad. But basically, that's it, I think it's the love that we can generate is equal to the love that we get back ... Amen.

He that lends, gives.

If you ask him for a shilling, or two or three shillings, he'll give freely freely, but if he know that he got to spend a few hundred dollars, which is no more than three shillings compare to what he got, boys, he will cry buckets of tears.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

She did not come to him, however. She has never come to me, he tough. She has always waited, letting me come to her. She gives, but I must ask.

Love is not "fulfilling" oneself through the use of another. Love is giving oneself to another, for the good of the other, and receiving the other as a gift.78 The lethal paradox of the age was that, for all its alleged humanism, it had ended up devaluing the human person into an economic unit, an ideological category, an expression of a class or race or ethnicity.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

No one but a murderer would have thought of giving Gerry that albatross.

When we are centered on giving, we also receive, because our personal anxieties begin to dissipate from our thoughts. When we recognize that what is in the best interests of another is also of complete benefit to us, we gain inner tranquillity, if only briefly, because for that moment we have left our personal hell behind. The

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Having given all he had, He then is very rich indeed.