Quotes About Giving

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

What shall I do when greed consumes me? Remember that it is truly better to give than to receive. The world is a forum of sharing and trading (that's Rule 7, again), not a treasure-house for the plundering. To give is to do what you can to make things better.

Qué haríamos con dos millones (si los tuviéramos)», explica la diferencia entre los filántropos y los cristianos: «Los filántropos se los darían a los pobres que se lo merecieran, y los cristianos, a los pobres que no lo merecieran; porque si los cristianos fueran verdaderos cristianos, lo primero que pensarían es que ellos mismos constituían un ejemplo de ricos que no merecían serlo»

There's all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience, you take from yourself.

Getters don't get--givers get.

Eugene H. Peterson

Some of us try desperately to hold on to ourselves, to live for ourselves. We look so bedraggled and pathetic doing it, hanging on to the dead branch of a bank account for dear life, afraid to risk ourselves on the untried wings of giving. We don't think we can live generously because we have never tried. But the sooner we start the better, for we are going to have to give up our lives finally, and the longer we wait the less time we have for the soaring and swooping life of grace.

Listen carefully to what I am saying—and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes." NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away.

Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the citizens of Black Rock City has enormous appeal to them because it enhances their sense of who they are and magnifies their sense of being. That's a spiritual reward.

I was always a giver by nature. I wanted to make sure the person next to me or maybe even the person I don't know didn't go without if I could help it. That's always been in me.

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

I think the charity side of things for me is very important, because if you're not giving something back, there's an imbalance somewhere in your life.