Quotes About Giving

I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity - the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding.

The more generous you are, the easier and more satisfying and fun your life is. And it took me so long.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

Sometimes folks ask this question about giving to beggars and panhandlers with suspicion, speculating that homeless folks will just use their money for drugs or alcohol, which happens sometimes. But we don't always ask what CEOs are doing with our money when we give it to their companies, and they may also be buying drugs or pornography (or yachts) with our money! In

True generosity is measured not by how much we give away but by how much we have left, especially when we look at the needs of our neighbors. We have no right not to be charitable. The early Christians taught that charity is merely returning what we have stolen. In the seventeenth century, St. Vincent de Paul said that when he gives bread to the beggars, he gets on his knees and asks forgiveness from them.

The way of Jesus is not a proposal for how to take over the nation-state and make it Christian. It is, rather, a lesson in learning not to take over--to be a community where we find a new way of life by giving ourselves for others.

Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.

In death, he had given her what remained of his life, and this was the most beautiful thing. Perhaps we can only give in total beauty and simplicity in the moment of our dying, because that is the only giving that demands no return.

Perhaps we can only give in total beauty and simplicity in the moment of our dying, because that is the only giving that demands no return.

Trust is placing your heart Inside of a box Even when you Yourself Do not Have a key. Trust is that moment Of finding the key, Opening the box, And giving It all Away.

People are not the Source of Love. They are the object that we give love to.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.

God is not asking us to not have anything or even to give away every single thing that we have. He is asking us to share with people who have less than us, which we do all the time.

If you seek immortality, then give. For giving frees humanity from the bondage of time. When all is gone, what's left is what you gave.

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

I've been very active in a lot of charities because I firmly believe that much is expected of those to whom much has been given

It's more than bones. It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It's more than the beating of the single heart. It's praising. It's giving until the giving feels like receiving. You have a life - just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.

The witchery of living is my whole conversation with you, my darlings. All I can tell you is what I know. Look, and look again. This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes. It's more than bones. It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It's more than the beating of the single heart. It's praising. It's giving until the giving feels like receiving. You have a life—just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.

If one gives little, one receives little. If one gives much, one receives much.