Quotes on Giving To Others

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.