Quotes About Giving

In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Live by looking for things to do for other people.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Dogen-zenji said, "To give is nonattachment." That is, just not to attach to anything is to give.

SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world. The Holy Spirit works through simplicity to release spiritual gifts such as hospitality, mercy, and giving... to live free of anxiety, and to better take care of this Earth.

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

If you love something, give it away...

Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.