Quotes for Christmas...

Quotes on Giving and Receiving for Christmas


"Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving,
the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given,
the mind of the giver is uplifted."
- Buddha
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"Gracious acceptance is an art -
an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that
we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things,
which can be much harder than giving... Accepting another person's
gift is allowing to express his feelings for you."
- Alexander McCall Smith
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"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
- Kahlil Gibran
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"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
- Mother Teresa
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"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best
of all ways of giving."
- Max Beerbohm
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"For it is in giving that we receive."
- St. Francis of Assisi
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."
- Henry Ward Beecher
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"You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving."
- Author Unknown
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"Many look with one eye at what they give,
but with seven at what they receive."
- A German Proverb
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"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping
a present and not giving it."
- William A. Ward
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"As I give, I get."
- Mary McLeod Bethune
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"A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers
what he receives."
- An Old Proverb
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"You always get back much more than you give."
- Jimmy Carter

Generosity Quotes and a Verse for Christmas...

Generosity Quotes and a Verse for Christmas


" ...I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak,
remembering the words the Lord Jesus Himself said: 'It is more blessed to
give than to receive.'"
- Acts 20:35
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"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves,
we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."
- Margaret Cho

"To measure the man, measure his heart."
- Malcolm Stevenson
"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
- Pierre Corneille
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly,
and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that
sticks to the fingers."
- Seneca
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."
- William Osler
"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"There are those that give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
- Kahlil Gibran
"In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Giving opens the way for receiving."
- Florence Scovel Shinn
"People who give will never be poor."
- Anne Frank
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
- Jean Anouilh

Quotes on Generosity...

Quotes on Generosity

"Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into
your lap a good measure - pressed down, shaken together,
and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be
measured to you in return."
- Luke 6:38, NLT
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"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable
ways it can change someone else's life forever."
- Margaret Cho
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"She gives most who gives with joy."
- Mother Teresa
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
- Mother Teresa
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"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting,
but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is
a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a
few drops on yourself."
- Og Mandino
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains
and is immortal."
- Albert Pike
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"You have not lived today until you have done something
for someone who can never repay you."
- John Bunyon
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"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- Buddha
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose
yourself in the service of others."
- Ghandi
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"I expect to pass through this world but once;
any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness
that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now;
let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass
this way again."
- Etienne de Grellet
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"Real generosity is doing something nice for
someone who will never find out."
- Frank A. Clark
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"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 you ever can."
- John Wesley

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Generosity Quotes

Generosity Quotes

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers,
it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island
cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
- Francis Bacon

"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our
own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained
worlds occupied by the needs of others."
- Barbara Bush

"The fragrance always stays in the
hand that gives the rose."
- Hada Bejar

"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able
to give a large part of one's self to others."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill

"There is no beautifier of complexion,
or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and
not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal,
or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good
meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture,
which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do,
but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"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."
- Peyton Conway March

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
- Anne Sexton