Alice Walker Quotes

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

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

You live this life being selfish, you're not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.

Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.

I do everything from my heart.

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is sacrifice.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

I come from a family with big hearts, so I love to put smiles on people's faces.