Jerry Spinelli Quotes

We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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.

He who gives love, receives love.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.

It takes very little effort to make someone happy.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

We have so much love to give, and the more that we give, the more we receive.

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

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

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?