We can only give what we have.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
If you have much, give much.
If you have little, give little.
But give willingly and not unwillingly.
To give unwillingly means to present the rose
with numberless thorns.
To give willingly means to present only the rose.
-Sri Chinmoy
The more of ourselves we give,
the more of ourselves we find.
-Sufi Saying
The hand that gives
is higher than the hand that takes.
-Turkish Proverb
He who gives to me
teaches me to give.
-Danish Proverb
Gifts within your means
and from your heart
are the proper gifts.
-Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
The gift, to be true,
must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We give what we have gained
so another may receive new life.
-Strephon Kaplan-Williams
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
-Simone Weil
The greatest gift you can give another
is the purity of your attention.
-Richard Moss
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world.
When you give love, you give everything.
-Theodore Dreiser
The greatest gift that you can give to others
is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
-Brian Tracy
Giving is the secret of abundance.
-Sivananda
Gain most by giving
-The Oculatum
Giving opens the way for receiving.
-Florence Scovell Shinn
Giving hands receive.
-Ugandan Proverb
You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
-Theodore H. White
If you always give
You will always have.
-Chinese Proverb
Giving is true having.
-Charles Spurgeon
O Lady, we receive but what we give,
And in our life alone does Nature live.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. -Orison Swett Marden
The only way to receive abundantly
is to give abundantly.
-Peter Megargee Brown
To receive everything,
one must open one's hands and give.
-Deshimaru
True giving and true being
are one and the same in real life.
-Christian Larson
Let the center of your being be one of giving, giving, giving. -Peace Pilgrim
I give because my heart is too full;
it cannot contain all that it has.
-Mabel Collins
Always give from the overflow of your well,
not from its depths.
-Sufi Saying
When I give, I give myself. -Walt Whitman
One can give nothing whatever
without giving oneself.
-James Baldwin
The most satisfying thing in life
is to have been able to give
a large part of oneself to others.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When you give yourself,
you receive more than you give.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The gift is most to the giver
and comes back most to him - it cannot fail.
-Walt Whitman
What you give, you give to yourself;
what you do not give, you give up.
-Alejandro Jodorowsky
Nothing that you have not given away
will ever be really yours.
-C. S. Lewis
While you have a thing it can be taken from you...
but when you give it, you have given it.
No robber can take it from you.
It is yours then forever when you have given it.
It will be yours always.
That is to give.
-James Joyce
That's what I consider true generosity.
You give your all,
and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
-Simone de Beauvoir
When you give,
give with joy and smiling.
-Joseph Joubert
She gives most who gives with joy.
-Mother Teresa
There are those who give with joy,
and that joy is their reward.
-Kahlil Gibran
It is not how much we give
but how much love we put into giving.
-Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure,
it just gives.
-Mother Teresa
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
-Anonymous
To give quickly is to give twice.
-Turkish Proverb
Those who give when they are asked to
have waited too long.
-Kobi Yamada
To give without any reward, without any notice,
has a special quality of its own.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Blessed are those who can
give without remembering
and take without forgetting.
-Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
The highest form of giving
is silent and anonymous.
-Sivananda Radha
You often say,
"I would give, but only to the deserving."
The trees in you orchard say not so,
not the flocks in your pasture.
-Kahlil Gibran
The proper aim of giving
is to put the recipient in a state
where he no longer needs our gift.
-C. S. Lewis
There's a great joy in my giving.
It's thrilling.
It's exhilarating.
It's important to be a part of sharing.
It is my love.
It is my joy.
-W. Clement Stone
In truth,
it is life that gives unto life -
while you,
who deem yourself a giver,
are but a witness.
-Kahlil Gibran
