Quotes About Giving

You must love in order to be loved. You must be inclusive in order to feel yourself among the included. You must give in order to receive.

A maple that has yielded up its life Season on sugar-season—oh, what can be More tragic in its beauty than a maple: Swollen and scarred of trunk, and varicose From gashes in the bark, from too many wounds Of too many spiles that let out too much sap, From too much giving, giving for ninety years, For ninety Moons-of-Maple-Sugar-Making, For ninety Moons-of-Gathering-of-Wild-Rice, For ninety Moons-of-the-Falling-of-the-Leaves, For ninety Moons-of-the-Coming-of-the-Snow.

A candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise or stir at all, But softly gives itself away, While, quite unselfish, it grows small...

Volunteers are paid in six figures — S-M-I-L-E-S.

Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

Service to others is the rent we pay for our room on Earth.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Lending Out Books You're always giving, my therapist said. You have to learn how to take. Whenever you meet a woman, the first thing you do is lend her your books. You think she'll have to see you again in order to return them. But what happens is, she doesn't have the time to read them, & she's afraid if she sees you again you'll expect her to talk about them, & will want to lend her even more. So she cancels the date. You end up losing a lot of books. You should borrow hers.

Lending Out Books You're always giving, my therapist said. You have to learn how to take. Whenever you meet a woman, the first thing you do is lend her your books. You think she'll have to see you again in order to return them. but what happens is, she doesn't have the time to read them, & she's afraid if she sees you again you'll expect her to walk about them, & will want to lend her even more. So she cancels the date. You end up losing a lot of books. You should borrow hers.

It is a privilege to be in a position to offer charity and an honor to fulfill a divine obligation.

a mon's real wealth isnae measured in lands, coin, or fighting men, but in the giving and receiving of a true and lasting love.

Love never reasons but profusely gives......gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

DON'T GIVE TO THE WINTER RELIEF FUND!

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.

one of my biggest illusions was that other people were meant to assuage my anxiety by filling some lack that I was responsible for filling myself. If I wanted to give, the giving had to be "for fun and for free." The giving couldn't be out of guilt, nor because I secretly wanted to get something back, nor because I wanted the other person to respond in such a way as to satisfy my longing to be useful. Thérèse

Mother Earth is always giving, even if it's a lesson. She is always giving." –Tiokasin Ghosthorse

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Wally gives gifts all the time, at the drop of a hat, little, odd ones. The gift not so much in the item itself as in the transaction, the act of passing something along.

There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will never get it back. ~ James Wood, author of The Book Against God.

think two cops sucking hard at Hollywood's tit are in no position to be giving me any shit for offering a courtesy to a studio exec.