Quotes About Giving

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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.

Hope involves giving a great deal of yourself away.

down from the chair. And he gave Maxine lots more

love is the only gift worth giving.

Money is easier to dispense than affection, even for the most miserly.

The history of the world teaches that the power of joy in people doesn't come in getting, it always comes in giving, contributing, adding more. The more you give, the more you live. If you're about something better, live for something higher than self.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world.

Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experienced what it means to possess themselves, their own sense of identity and self-worth. Really helping our children grow may involve being patient enough to allow them the sense of possession as well as being wise enough to teach them the value of giving and providing the example ourselves.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing. Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experience what it means to possess themselves, their own sense of identity and self-worth.

Perhaps my daughter needed the experience of possessing the things before she could give them. (In fact, unless I possess something, can I ever really give it?)

In fact, unless I possess something, can I ever really give it?)

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come before a sense of genuine sharing. Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experienced what it means to possess themselves, their own sense of identity and self-worth. Really helping our children grow may involve being patient enough to allow them the sense of possession as well as being wise enough to teach them the value of giving and providing the example ourselves.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

The true spirit of Christmas is love

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.