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"I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. And the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldnt brighten her own."
-Anon., (submitted to Quoteland.com by 'Stevie')
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
-Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature, 1625
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
-Hada Bejar
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I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed.
-Bible, Psalm 37:25,26 NIV
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You must be willing to do the things today others don't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.
-Les Brown, Live Your Dreams
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"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time. There is not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give.
-Eden Eliot, [quotation submitted to Quoteland.com]
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For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet - "The Farewell"
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"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."
-Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
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It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than [from] calculated malice. The road to Hell is no less harrowing for being paved with good intentions.
-Giles St. Aubyn, biography of King Edward VII
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"The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
-Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels and Reflections
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Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give.
-David R. Hawkins
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
-Nelson Henderson
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"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."
-John MacNaughton
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"The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others."
-Madame de Maintenon
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
-Horace Mann
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Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.
-John C. Maxwell
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), Moral Letters to Lucilius
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"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
-Anne Sexton
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
-Ben Sweetland
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All that is not given is lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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"No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-Charles Dudley Warner
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"I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity."
-Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden
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"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."
-John Wesley
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Books about Generosity
