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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Sep 14, 2025
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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.
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Giving is the business of the rich.
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
The value of a man resides in what he gives
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.
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.
Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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.
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.
Best things in life aren't things.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.