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"It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity."

"Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give."

"You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity."

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving."

"If you want to celebrate a happy occasion, Do it by helping those who are in need."

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

"The more you give, the less you need."
Explore more quotes by Jon Fishman

"People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated."

"I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music."

"When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems."

"You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day."

"You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat."

"For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life."

"I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all."

"I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?"
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