Quotes About Giving

Giving in order to get is not giving.

Dharma is about exchange, about giving and receiving, It is about outgrowing animal instincts, outgrowing fear, discovering the ability to feed others, comfort others, enable others to find meaning.

The earth weeps for us. Because in our inability to love, in our pursuit for power, in our lack of wisdom, we lose a golden opportunity to enjoy life, make life enjoyable for others and find joy in giving joy.

When you first give something in order to get something, you are a generous yajaman. If you demand something before you give something, you are a devata. As children you can be devatas, but to grow up means to be a yajaman. When you are able to give without expecting anything in return, you are the greatest yajaman.

Charity is called daan, alms are called bhiksha and service fee is called dakshina.

yagna, which involved exchange, giving in order to get,

In normal life one is not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life.

St. Teresa of Ávila once said, "God has no hands but yours. . . . Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.

You should not face the world if you are unable to give to the world

In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one's own acts and deeds, compared with what we become only through other people.

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

the real purpose in living was in giving every part of his life to Christ.

If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all. If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

All you can take with you is that which you've given away.

We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.