art
of
GIVING

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble
causes and to make this muddled world a better place
for those who will live in it after we are gone..”
– Winston Churchill

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not the
hate them, but to be indifferent to them.
That’s the essence of inhumanity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“There is a natural law, a divine law, that
obliges you and me to relieve the suffering,
the distressed and the destitute.”
– Conrad Hilton

“And if you do good only to those who do good
to you, why should you receive a blessing?
Even sinners do that.”
– Luke 6:33(GNB)

“Life is an echo, what you send out comes back to you.”
– Anonymous

“Charity is a virtue of the heart. Gifts and alms are
the expressions, of this virtue.”
– Joseph Addison

“We must give more in order to get more,
it is the generous giving of ourselves that
produce the generous harvest.”
– Orison Swett Marden

“We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart:
love, kindness, joy, understanding,
sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness.”
– Wilfred A Peterson

“If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prospertiy, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.”
– Chinese Proverb

“To do something, however small, to make others
happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most
elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.”
– John Lubbock

“The art of philanthropy is a spiritual act, an expression of
caring for one’s fellow human beings. It is a belief in the future
and that the future can be good. It is investing in that future.
It is helping to make the dream come true.”
– Arthur Frantzreb

“The fragrance always remains in the hand
that gives the rose.”
– Heda Bejar

“The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it
continually receives and never gives.”
– Anonymous

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more
to the abundance of those who have much; it is
whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“No person was ever honoured for what he received.
Honour has been the reward for what he gave.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“I think the great livers, the people who are fully
self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.”
– Mack Victor Hansen

“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line
for greatness – great wealth, great return, great
satifaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
– Jim Rohn

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing,
therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any
fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.” – Anonymous

Compiled by
Hilary Richard Sam
kodwobrumpon@hotmail.com