Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

Giving is true having.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

I try to be more mindful and less greedy.