(4773 quotes found)
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
Maya Angelou
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"”
Eve Merriam
“I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.”
Andre Gide
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
Mother Teresa
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
Kahlil Gibran
“I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.”
Kingsley Amis
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama