INTRODUCTION

  • Noblesse oblige, or, superior advantages

    bind you to larger generosity.

    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Give all thou canst, high Heaven rejects the lore

    Of nicely-calculated less or more.

    -William Wordsworth

  • The true measure of a man is how he treats

    someone who can do him absolutely no good.

    -Samuel Johnson

  • Kindness is the

    practice of generosity.

    -Sharon Salzberg

  •  If you can’t feed a hundred people,

    then just feed one.

    -Mother Teresa

  • We make a living by what we get;

    but we make a life by what we give.

    -Winston Churchill

  • The Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

    He also accepteth from a grouch.

    -Catherine Hall

  • The habit of giving

    only enhances the desire to give.

    -Walt Whitman

  • If you think you are too small to be effective,

    you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

    -Betty Reese

  • Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

    nothing is going to get better. It's not.

    -Dr. Seuss

  • You have not lived until you have done something

    for someone who can never repay you.”

    -John Bunyan

  • Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap

    but by the seeds that you plant.

    -Robert Louis Stevenson

  • If you are feeling helpless,

    help someone.

    -Aung San Suu Kyi

  • It is more difficult to give money away

    intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

    -Andrew Carnegie

  • No one has ever

    become poor by giving.

    -Anne Frank

  • The fragrance always remains

    in the hand that gives the rose.

    -Heda Bejar

  • He who gives when asked

    has waited too long.

    -Seneca

INTRODUCTION