David Dunn Quotes

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

If your intention is to give, you will not be concerned with how your actions are perceived.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Constant Kindness can accomplish much.

We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

Do good things for other people.

Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.