Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

I learned that life is about the people around you and the people you give back to. That's what parenting is: You're not there for yourself; you're there for your offspring and everyone else around you.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

My wife gets mad at me, because I'll worry more about my friends than I worry about myself.

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.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

I would like to be remembered as somebody who cared a great deal about people.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.