Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

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

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.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

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.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

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

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

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.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

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

There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

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.

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result.

Giving is true having.