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Lois McMaster Bujold (top)
You try to give away what you want yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold


Margaret Cho (top)
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
- Margaret Cho


Sir Winston Churchill (top)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Sir Winston Churchill


Norman Douglas (top)
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
- Norman Douglas


George Eliot (top)
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- George Eliot


Euripides (top)
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
- Euripides


Thomas Fuller (top)
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
- Thomas Fuller


Kahlil Gibran (top)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
- Kahlil Gibran


Baltasar Gracian (top)
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
- Baltasar Gracian


P.D. James (top)
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
- P.D. James


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (top)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Albert Schweitzer (top)
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
- Albert Schweitzer


Lucius Annaeus Seneca (top)
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca


William Shakespeare (top)
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare


Publilius Syrus (top)
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
- Publilius Syrus
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
- Publilius Syrus


Zig Ziglar (top)
You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar