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I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need.
Oct 2, 2025
In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Christian life consists of faith and charity
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.
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.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
You only need a heart full of grace
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
The more you give, the more you live.
The more you give, the more you can give.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!