Quotes About Giving

When we give from the heart, we do so out of the joy that springs forth whenever we willingly enrich another person's life. This kind of giving benefits both the giver and the receiver. The receiver enjoys the gift without worrying about the consequences that accompany gifts given out of fear, guilt, shame, or desire for gain. The giver benefits from the enhanced self-esteem that results when we see our efforts contributing to someone's well-being.

What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart. —Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD

What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart.

Thus the Apostle commands us to work with our own hands, that we may have to give to those that need. He might have said, that we may support ourselves; but he tells us to give to those that need.

Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind are always attained by giving them to someone else.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

T the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; nor how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything

The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives

Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES

Love that is hoarded moulds at lastUntil we know some dayThe only thing we ever haveIs what we give away.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

And the tree was happy