To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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 may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
Mother's love grows by giving.
The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
You give before you get.
Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.
Always think in terms of what the other person wants.
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Never, never, never give up.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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