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One
must be poor to know
the luxury of giving.
George Eliot |
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Blessed
are those who can give without remembering
and take
without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco |
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Of all the
dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children
when they
are giving something. Any small thing they give.
Children give the world to you.
They open the world
to you
as if it were a book you'd never been able to read. But when a gift must be found, it is always some absurd
little thing,
passed on crooked. . . an angel looking
like a clown. Children have so little that they can give,
because
they never know they have given you everything.
Margaret Lee
Runbeck
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Julian
of Norwich
Cheerful givers
do not count the cost of what they give.
Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering
the person to whom the
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We make a living by what we
get,
but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill |
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2 Corinthians 9:7
We all should give what
we have decided in our hearts to give,
not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a
cheerful giver. |
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I have
held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all;
but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still
possess.
Martin
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The
Golden Ladder of Giving
1. To give reluctantly, the gift of the hand, but not of
the heart.
2. To give cheerfully, but not in proportion to need.
3. To give cheerfully and proportionately, but not until
solicited.
4. To give cheerfully, proportionately, and unsolicited,
but to put the gift
into the poor person's hand, thus
creating shame.
5. To give in such a way that the distressed may know
their benefactor,
without being known to him or her.
6. To know the objects of our bounty, but remain unknown
to them.
7. To give so that the benefactor may not know those whom
he has relieved,
and they shall not know him.
8. To prevent poverty by teaching a trade, setting a person up in business,
or in some other way preventing the need
of charity.
Maimonides |
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Thou that has given so much to me,
Give one thing more--a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if thy blessings had spare days;
But such a heart, whose pulse may be
Thy praise.
George Herbert |
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But
what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of
knowledge or wisdom
will enrich her children's lives? Or
how a small seed of information
passed from one generation
to another may generate a new science,
a new industry--a
seed which neither the giver nor the receiver
can truly
evaluate at the time.
Helena
Rubinstein |
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One
has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life
when one plants shade trees under which one knows full well one will never sit.
Elton Trueblood |
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I
expect to pass through this world but once. Any good
therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show
to a fellow creature, let me do it now.
Let me not defer
or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Stephen
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Not what we give, but
what we share,--
For the gift without the giver is bare;
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,--
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
James Russell Lowell |
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If all my
pain and all my tears,
And all that I have learned throughout the years
Could make one perfect song
To lift some fallen head
To light some darkened mind,
I should feel that not in vain
I served mankind.
Marguerite Few |
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Gerald Brenan
As Coleridge said,
"We receive but what we give." The happy life
is a life
of continual generosity in which we go out to
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There
are those who give little of the much they have--and they
give it
for recognition and their hidden desire makes
their gifts unwholesome.
And there are those who have little and give it all.
There are those believers in life and the bounty of life,
and their coffer is never empty.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their
reward.
And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is
their baptism.
And there are those who give and know not pain in giving,
nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;
They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its
fragrance into space.
Through the hands of such as these God speaks,
and from
behind their eyes He smiles upon the earth.
Khalil Gibran |
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Give what you have. To someone else
it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Behold!
I do not give lectures on a little
charity. When I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman |
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Simply give others a bit of yourself;
a thoughtful act, a helpful idea,
a word of appreciation,
a lift over a rough spot,
a sense of understanding, a
timely suggestion. You take something
out of your mind,
garnished in kindness out of your heart,
and put it into
the other person's mind and heart.
Charles H. Burr |
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Do
not inflict your will. Just give love.
The soul
will take that love and put it where it can best
be used.
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Emmanuel |
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To give and then not
feel that one has given
is the very best of all ways of
giving.
Max Beerbohm |
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Sometimes it seems to me
that in this absurdly random life
there is some inherent justice in
the outcome of personal relationships.
In the long run, we get
no more than we have been willing to give.
Sheldon Kopp
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They
serve best who give most of themselves.
Self is forgotten by the
one who serves,
for such a one rejoices to see success coming
to
others through his or her efforts.
James
Cash Penney |
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Receiving
and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together
in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling.
If one aspect of that cycle
doesn't function, the entire cycle ceases to function and the life
force cannot
move freely. If you can't
inhale, you will soon have nothing to exhale,
and before long, your body will be unable to continue living.
Shakti
Gawain |
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The
measure of life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall |
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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be
able to give to others.
Augustine of Hippo |
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You
can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Amy Carmichael |
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A
handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty
of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my
handful of seed on high.
Fiona
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