F. Sionil Jose Quotes

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

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

I've always been a caretaker; I think a lot of women are. We take care of everybody else first, and very rarely do we think about ourselves.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

Big givers expect access when they want it.

Give [charity] without hope or expectation of any return. To give otherwise, indeed, would scarcely be to give at all, but rather a loan.

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

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

Be very careful. Giving because we think we will get something back will not work. You must be 100 percent willing to give and never experience any return, or it will not work.

Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

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

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

You have to start giving first and expect absolutely nothing.

No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.