Rachel Cusk Quotes

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

Every time you get something, give something away.

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

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

I enjoy giving money away. The more you give, the more you get.

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

You give before you get.

Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

You have to give to be able to receive.

That's the most gratifying thing in the world, helping each other.

When you do things to try to help people and share things, it really comes back to you. I try to do that.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.