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Giving is a powerful and sacred force

• Giving is the highest expression of power. Vivian Greene
• Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself. Tony Robbins
• Service,  Making a difference,  Generosity,  Abundance,  Selfishness

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Giving is an expression of love

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
• You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson
• Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. Peace Pilgrim
• Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. Leo Buscaglia
• Realise that you cannot help a soul unless that soul really wants help and is ready to be helped. Send that soul nothing but love and more love. Be still…and wait. But be there when that soul turns for help. Darren Bayliss
• May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love. L.O. Baird
• Love,  Caring

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Giving creates great rewards

• We rise by lifting others. Robert Ingersoll
• What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because…there is naught but You. Neale Donald Walsch
• The best and quickest way to achieve all our goals and to live the life of which we have dreamed is to assist others in achieving their goals and living the life of which they have dreamed. Neale Donald Walsch
• It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself… Serve and thou shall be served. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The best way to serve ourselves is to love and care for others. Pema Chodron
• What you give, you become. Neale Donald Walsch
• Love grows through giving. Fear makes us afraid to give.  What are you able to give to others or to your community?  What have you been able to give in the past 24 hours?  To whom did you give it? Jennifer James
• The gifts that one receives from giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them. Rod McKuen

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Giving brings happiness…

• Giving whether it be of time, labor, affection, advice, gifts, or whatever, is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Rebecca Russell
• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
• In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. Victor Hugo
• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
• In his research, Luks studied thousands of volunteers and discovered that they achieved a “helper’s high” that was very similar to what a person experiences after a long run. It’s a euphoric feeling that, unlike “runner’s high,” lasts for several weeks. Tim Sanders
• A man’s highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. Wallace D. Wattles
• If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help others. Chinese proverb
• Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others. Christopher Lane
• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. Tony Robbins
• Generosity breeds an immediate kind of happiness, which is different than other practices, which often have a delayed positive reinforcement. This helps generosity beget more generosity with less and less effort. Joseph Goldstein
• Helping oneself and helping others are inextricably intertwined: the more we help others, the happier we become, and the happier we become, the more inclined we are to help others. Tal Ben- Shahar
• The most sensible way to look after our own self-interest, to find freedom and be happy, is not to directly pursue these things but to give priority to the interest of others. Help others to become free of their fear and pain. Contribute to their happiness. It’s all really very simple. You don’t have to choose being kind to yourself and others it’s one and the same. Piero Ferrucci
• The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. Heda Bejar
• The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and the happy, normal person is the difference between get and give. The unhappy person is concerned with:  the world is against me, what’s in it for me, what are people doing to me, and so forth.  When your central theme in life is getting, you usually do get headaches.  But the happy person is looking toward what he or she can do, what they can give, what they can accomplish.  Joe D. Batten and Leonard C. Hudson
• There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Henry Drummond
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… and health

• If social involvement and volunteering were a drug, we’d be popping pills like there was no tomorrow. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved! Wayne Dyer
• A very important finding comes from Stephanie Brown and her colleagues at the University of Michigan: giving support to others is more important to longevity than receiving support. Ed Diener & Robert Biswas- Diener
• There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
• It’s almost as if nature wired us to be kind and contribute to our community. Brian Johnson
• Even thinking about helping others boosts our health. Psychologist Dr. David McClelland of Harvard University had a group of students watch a film about Mother Teresa’s work in the slums of Calcutta. Sit and watch was all they did, but later tests revealed that students responded to the film physically, with an increase in immunoglobulin A, an antibody that defends against certain diseases. Craig & Marc Kielburger
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Giving opens the way for receiving …

• It is in giving that we receive. Saint Francis
• The more you give, the more you receive because you keep the abundance of the universe circulating in your life. Deepak Chopra
• Giving opens the way for receiving. Florence Scovel Shinn
• In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. Flora Edwards
• It is in sharing the most, not gathering the most, that the most is received. Neale Donald Walsch
• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that you cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Getters don’t get–givers get. Eugene Benge
• The law is exact: If you give, really work in a giving consciousness, you must receive. Eric Butterworth
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world. Gary Zukav

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… creating true abundance

• Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm
• The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. Leonard Nimoy
• The heart that gives, gathers. Marianne Moor
• It’s as though the laws of the universe bend for love. Financial laws bend. Temporal laws bend. Logistical constraints bend. By giving, we might just end up having more. Brent Kessel
• The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. Lao Tzu
• Giving is true having. Charles Spurgeon
• No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
• The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back. Grace Speare
• One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. Zig Zigler
• In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher
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Giving creates meaning in life and creates energy

• One turning point amid life’s lessons comes when we receive an acknowledgement of gratitude from someone who may or may not know us. Something clicks inside of us and we realise we are contributing something. Suddenly we realise that our life really matters and we have found a life path that will feed more than just the brain and ego; it will feed our heart and our soul. An influx of energy bursts through us, and we enjoy a sense of satisfaction, spiritual accomplishment and self- esteem. These feelings gather together to create a kind of magical synchronicity. We begin going with that flow rather than paddling up stream. We begin to flow with an unseen force.  Jamie Sams
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Giving connects people

• Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging. Deepak Chopra
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Giving make a difference to people’s lives

• There is no greater joy, nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life. Mary Rose McGeady
• To make a difference is not a matter of accident, a matter of casual occurrence of the tides. People choose to make a difference. Maya Angelou
• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens
• If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one. Mother Teresa
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What we give is the true measure of our lives

• The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. Wayne Dyer
• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pine
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
• Real living is living for others. Bruce Lee
• To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart. Annie Dillard
• The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. Ethel Percy Andrus
• From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe
• As Coleridge said, “We receive but what we give.” The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.  Gerald Brenan
• Sharing what you have is more important than what you have. Albert M. Wells, Jr.

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Make your life about giving

• Life focused on what you’re going to get is always less abundant than life focused on what you can give. Because the one (giving) requires creativity and courage, while the other (getting) is just another form of fear. Steve Chandler
• The secret of living is giving. Tony Robbins
• Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. The gifts of nature, sunlight and the sounds of birds singing. Deepak Chopra
• The reason that you are blessed in excess with anything is so that you can give it away to someone else in need. Dee Dee M. Scott
• You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden
• Make giving part of your spiritual practice
• Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self- observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self- acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Real generosity is an unfailing sign of spirituality. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Mystery showers gifts upon others, because so many gifts have been showered upon me. Every act of kindness becomes a prayer. John Kehoe
• We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. Pema Chodron
• True religion. . . is giving and finding one’s happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. William J.H. Boetcker

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Be grateful to the person you give to

• Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men? Swami Vivekananda
• From the soul’s perspective, both helpee and helper are just hanging out together – complementary roles in a dance. Without helpees, what would the helpers have to do? Susan Jeffers
• For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root. Kahlil Gibran
• When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you. I have sent you nothing but angels. N.D. Walsch
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It is our spirit and intention in giving that truly matters

• A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Do not do something, therefore, because you think someone else needs you. That only builds resentment. Do whatever you do as a means of deciding, declaring, creating, and experiencing who you are—and who you choose to be. Neale Donald Walsch
• Giving is a joy if we do it in the right spirit. It all depends on whether we think of it as “What can I spare? ” or as “What can I share?  Esther Baldwin York
• Abundance doesn’t follow giving until giving becomes its own reward. Jan Denise
• To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.  Max Beerbohm
• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.  Pierre Corneille
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Therefore, give with a generous and loving heart

• It is not how much we give but how much love we put into the giving. To God there is nothing small.  Mother Theresa
• My heart expands to embrace others. And so I help because I want to. To lend a hand, an ear, give some time, concern, money – whatever seems appropriate. As I lose myself momentarily in service to others, I am nourished and find a nurturing inner peace. I let my heart breathe and beat for more than just myself. I become the vehicle through which the Great
• A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return. Bhagavad Gita
• Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. Pindar
• He gives little who gives with a frown; he gives much who gives little with a smile. The Talmud
• It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it. Eileen Elias
• We all should give what we have decided in our hearts to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
• Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.  Julian of Norwich
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Give without expecting anything in return

• Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. Elizabeth Bibesco
• Gifts have ribbons, not strings. Vanna Bonta
• Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. Peace Pilgrim
• That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. Seneca
• A generous action is its own reward. William Walsh
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You don’t have to give “things”

• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.  George MacDonald
• A hug is a great gift – one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.
• The best gifts come from the heart, not the store. Sarah Dessen
• If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.  Arabian Proverb

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To truly give, give of yourself

• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran
• I don’t think you ever stop giving. I really don’t. I think it’s an on-going process. And it’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life. Oprah Winfrey
• We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are. Desire-Joseph Mercier
• If you give money, spend yourself with it. Henry David Thoreau
• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Infinitely more important than sharing one’s material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves – – our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love. William E. Simon
• You gave me your time, the most thoughtful gift of all. Dan Zadra
• The amount you give isn’t important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life. Jim Rohn
• Don’t be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it’s the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness. Brian Tracy
• Chances for heroic giving are rare, yet every day there are opportunities to give a part of yourself to someone who needs it. It may be no more than a kind word or a letter written at the right time.  The important thing about any gift is the amount of yourself you put into it.  Arline Boucher and John Tehan
• You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others. Theodore C. Speers
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• Do not inflict your will. Just give love.  The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.  Emmanuel
• We must realize that we cannot give love unless we can receive love. . . . In order to give of ourselves, we must nurture ourselves. John Gray
• Give of your unique talents and gifts
• Each of us has a gift, a talent to give back to the world. It may be small or large, it does not matter. The sacred song is our unique gift, our purpose, and each of us was born to discover and share it with the world. John Kehoe
• Each of us, as we journey through life, has the opportunity to find and to give his or her unique gift. Whether this gift is quiet or small in the eyes of the world does not matter at all–not at all; it is through the finding and the giving that we may come to know the joy that lies at the center of both the dark times and the light.  Helen M. Luke

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Give to others what you would like to receive more of in your life …

• Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn to give love; if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention and appreciation; if you want material affluence, help others to become materially affluent. In fact, the easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. Deepak Chopra
• Be the source. If you want joy, give joy to others. If you want love, learn to give love. The easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. Deepak Chopra
• Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want. Robert Kiyosaki
• Be what you are looking for and what you are looking for will find you. What you seek from another, give to another. That which you wish to experience from another, cause another to experience. Neale Donald Walsch
• There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life – happiness, freedom and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else. Peyton Conway March
• If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. Mark Twain
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer up somebody else. Mark Twain
• If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. Sir John Templeton
• Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. Eckhart Tolle
• If you are suffering right now because you feel that there is something that you want that you don’t have, notice that this comes from lack. Instead, what if you turned it around? What if you asked, “What gifts do I have, right now, that can be of service to others?” In other words, you go from a desire to get, to a desire to give. Giving opens the heart, wanting closes it. So when you give, all benefit! Michael Jeffreys
• Give out what you most want to come back. Robin S. Sharma
• The science is simple: When you give the world love and respect, the world will give you love and respect back. Russell Simmons
• Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. Steve Maraboli
• Many times, the very thing we want from those we are with for example, respect, patience, or just a little tenderness- is the very thing that we ourselves either lack at the moment or otherwise are somehow withholding from them. Guy Finley
• However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone and give to them from the abundance that is yours. Seek not to be the recipient of anything but to the the source. That which you wish to have, cause another to have. That which you hope to experience, cause anther to experience. For what you give you become. And in so doing, you will realise that you have had these things in your possession all along. Neale Donald Walsch

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… for you get what you give out

• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world. Gary Zukav
• You’ll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want! David Deida
• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. Nancy Reagan
• You reap what you sow. The Bible
• As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life – judgment, limitation, and stinginess. Gary Zukav
• The Law of Attraction,  Karma

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Give what is most appropriate to the other

• The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. Charles Dudley Warner
• Sometimes you need to give people something that’s for them, not just something that makes you feel good giving it. Katherine Paterson

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• We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone.  It isn’t generosity–it’s only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me. Jean-Paul Sartre

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