charity

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.

Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

We only have what we give.

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

A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin__eeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Give, but give until it hurts.

In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency to handle things as we see fit. But, in all things, regardless of whether we make the same choices or not, we are to treat each other with dignity and respect, both of which are evidences of charity in our hearts and lives.

When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other. Work on that. Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother's eyebrows which he learned to dislike in the nursery, and let him think how much he dislikes it. Let him assume that she knows how annoying it is and does it to annoy - if you know your job he will not notice the immense improbability of the assumption. And, of course, never let him suspect that he has tones and looks which similarly annoy her. As he cannot see or hear himself, this easily managed.

Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do.

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

No one has ever become poor by giving.