Harry Browne Quotes

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

There's no such thing as altruism.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.