Tamsin Greig Quotes

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

I want people to know that on the other side of the world - and even in your own country or on your own street - there are people who need something that you can give them.

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

The happiest people are the most giving people

A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.