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"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
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"The act of giving, abundant life."
"You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way."
"Give more, don't expect not to be repaid. Give more thanks for what you haven't expected but received!"
"In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party."
"Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more will the liberal man take from wrong sources; for such taking is not characteristic of the man who sets no store by wealth."
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"Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return."
"You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness."
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