giving

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

Good things when short are twice as good.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

In nature nothing can be given all things are sold.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

That best portion of a good man's life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

Whoever blessings, shall be abundantly blessed.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didn__ understand most of my life is that sharing includes serving oneself. It is a subtle distinction, one too subtle for most adults, though most children understand it.

I don't care what they say, we are only to love those who deserve our love and love them to the degree that they deserve it! You see, we are not God. Only God can love people undeserving without spoiling them. Us, on the other hand, can love someone so undeserving, and actually turn the person into someone so vile who is convinced that they were always entitled to every bit of it! Mamma mia! And what about giving? Yes, they all want us to give and expect nothing in return, they all have many scriptures to lay on our tables when it is they who are at the receiving end! But when the tables are turned and we are the ones at the receiving end, suddenly all the scriptures mean something else! And all the times they were on our end and we gave to them- suddenly are all forgotten!

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.