Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

People who give will never be poor.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

Even if you don't have anything, even if you've got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

Help people with problems, your problems disappear.

Quit taking, start giving.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Give, but give until it hurts.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

You don't need a reason to help people.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

In the world take always the position of the giver.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

It is impossible for me to waste my time in helping another person.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.