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FAMOUS QUOTES ON GIVING
People who are less capable intellectually, who cannot fend for themselves, are endowed with sensitive hearts. They cry out for love, for recognition, for heart-to-heart relationships. They could change the world if only we would listen to their cry, open our hearts, and discover that we can only be healed by love.
- Jean Vanier (Letter to My Brothers and Sisters in L’Arche) 1996
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
"You haven't lived a perfect day unless you have done something for someone that will never be able to repay you."
(Albert Einstein)
"Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
(Margaret Mead)
"If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
(Mother Teresa)
"Service to others is the rent you pay for time on this earth."
(Muhammad Ali)
"We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed."
(Mother Teresa)
"To share often and much . . . To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"What we give to the poor is what we carry with us when we die."
(Peter Marin)
"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog."
(Jack London)
"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
(George Elliot)
"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things."
(Thomas Merton)
"We are remembered forever by the tracks we leave."
(Native American proverb)
"If you continually give, you will continually have."
(Unknown)
"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give."
(Unknown)
"It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
(Mother Teresa)
"For it is in giving that we receive."
(St. Francis of Assisi)
"It is more blessed to give than to receive." [Acts 20:35]
(Bible)
"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."
(Flora Edwards)
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
(C. S. Lewis)
"The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them."
(Rod Mckeun)
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
(Edith Wharton)
"To get, give."
(Bob Roth)
"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing."
(Anonymous)
"You give before you get."
(Napoleon Hill)
"You only get to keep what you give away."
(Sheldon Kopp)
"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
(Helen Keller) |
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