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A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
In our willingness to give that which we seek,
we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
- Deepak Chopra
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
The abundance of life is unlimited -
it expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho
The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion,
pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance,
expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that I contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
For me, the most powerful expressions of true Christianity
in this material world are an unconditional love of all humans,
and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all
who are sick, infirm, or troubled -
as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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