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Generosity Quotes


"Christmas is about change. It's a time we open our hearts before we open our presents."


"Giving freely is sharing freely."


"Giving is the only thing that creates wealth."


"The sun consumes even itself to give light to a dark world, do likewise."


"If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else."


"When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you learned that someone needed help, you showed them all that you had learned without fearing that you might be revealing secrets or being used by others. To he who knocks, the door will open.He who asks will receive.He who consoles knows that he will be consoled.Even if none of these things happens when you are expecting it to, sooner or later you will see the fruits of the thing you shared with such generosity."


"You can never deplete your love by giving it away. Why not give yourself to love?"


"Don't give a gift with the expectation to get,but if you have a gift, always try to give."


"Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet."


"Giving is the only way to receive more."


"Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole."


"If any young man reads this Book aright, he becomes large-hearted. He cannot hold his soul within the narrow bound of his ribs, but his great heart looks out to see where it can scatter benefits."


"Having given all he had He then is very rich indeed."


"Christmas is about giving from the heart more than giving from the store."


"If you're giving to get, all you'll receive is disappointment. But if you're giving to give, all you'll receive is joy."


"A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little."


"The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still."


"Desire to give and not always receive."


"Be generous when you are giving your love."


"It's not what you got, but what you gave."


"You create wealth by what you give."


"The more you get, the more you get to give."


"Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource."


"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."


"If you withhold a blessing, it will be given through others."


"We must serve while we have strength."


"There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together."


"Be selfish with your speeches, be generous with your listening."


"Love without sharing is torture. Love without giving is death."


"The Lord makes you a light. Live as a child of the light."


"Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs."


"If you're always taking, you will inevitably experience resistance and struggle. Without realizing it, you may be creating a firewall that is blocking you from receiving exactly the things you most desire."


"People will rather pass by the weak, the lame, the beggars, the orphans, the tormented, the widows and take their large offerings to church, to the man of God who already has a mansion and jets , what a shallow mindedness."


"You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love."


"It's simple. You enrich your life when you enrich the lives of others."


"Service is a selfless deed."


"Give generously."


"As we receive, we give."


"Giving is the gateway to heaven."


"She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand."


"Generosity is opens the windows of heavenly blessings."


"You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me."


"You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love 'in the bank' to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment."


"Giving is an open gate to a great life."


"Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood."


"Only loving people who love you isn't profitable."


"Good things come your way when you serve the people around you."


"A great giftwe can giveto ourselvesis a willingnessto love everyone,no matter what.This frees us completely from the toxicjustificationswe use to hate."


"Sacred service is sacrifice."
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