I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.
These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.
Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.
But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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