There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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Quotes tagged ‘Giving’
The hardest thing about having nothing is having nothing to give.
Books don’t prattle. Books don’t make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It’s a very satisfying partnership.
There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don’t do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret,…
To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.
Good people are like candles; they burn themselves up to give others light.
If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you’ll give it all. And once you’ve lost yourself, haven’t you lost everything?
I need all the time and a thousand times more than all the time and if possible all the time that exists, for you, to think of you, to breathe in you.
We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
The key to life is not accumulation. It’s contribution.
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
Maybe the only thing I know in life: the more I help people, the more I have to give. It’s like a barrel of infinite water.
You must know, it was all for you…
I’ll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it’s inconvenient. Sometimes you’ve got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you’ve got to give until it hurts.
The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.
But shouldn’t all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.