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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

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.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

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.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

When you give, it comes back to you.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

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

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.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

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.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

The soul is healed by being with children.

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.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

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.‘

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

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

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

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.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Value is what you get.