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“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“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.”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.”

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.”

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“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.”

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

“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.”

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

“The best things in life aren't things.”

“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.”

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.”

“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.”

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“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.”