You will discover that you have two hands.
One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Generosity is giving more than you can; pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth. . . . But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven. . . . For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-21
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin
There are two ways of spreading light—to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
Erich Fromm
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.
Peyton Conway March
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Make many acts of love, for they set the soul on fire and make it gentle.
St. Teresa of Avila
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
George Eliot
Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
Albert Schweitzer
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.
Seneca
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Etienne de Grellet
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
Cesar Chavez
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes. These are the days that must happen to you. You shall not heap up what is called riches. You shall scatter with a lavish hand all that you earn or achieve.
Walt Whitman
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra
