I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‚basic rights.‘

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

I like to give back.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Giving is true having.

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.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.