Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that comes from giving.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

Even if you don't have a lot, you can help someone.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

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

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

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.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

If what I have to do is share a sandwich to lift someone's spirits, put a smile on their face - the worst thing that happens is I go broke!

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

When I give I give myself.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Love is not about getting - but giving.