“What is so worthy that you will actually devote yourself to giving rather than getting?”— Elizabeth Gilbert, lewishowes.com
“And I want to be remembered as the girl who loved too much, even the ones who didn’t deserve it. I want to be remembered as the girl who cared more, even about the ones who never gave a damn, the girl who was generous with her heart, even to those who were stingy with theirs.”— Rania Naim, shopcatalog.com
“You can’t spend your whole life holding the door open for people and then being angry they didn’t thank you. Nobody asked you to hold the fucking door.”— Sian Heder, Natalie 'Fig' Figueroa, Alysia Reiner, imdb.com
“Every day create something beautiful: a moment, a note to someone, an array of books or flowers on your desk. In time it will become a habit & one day you’ll be grateful that you’re living such a beautiful life. Someone will ask how you got such a life & you’ll say 'I practiced.'”— Marianne Williamson, twitter.com
“When we seek to give rather than get, when we think about how good life is, we open ourselves to a wide range of possibilities.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“The older I get the more I realize that the best course of action in nearly any situation is to increase generosity. The tricky part is deciding how and to whom that generosity should be applied. But it always comes back to being more generous.”— Gayle Forman, twitter.com
“In everything, look for what you can give, rather than what you can get out of it. It's a lot funner way to live.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. All these things make up the Supreme Gift, and are there in the soul of whoever wishes to be in the world and close to God.”— Henry Drummond, amazon.com
“Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.”— Martha Stewart, marthastewart.com
“In a classic experiment from the 1970s, seminary students were instructed to go to a specific location. On the way there, they walked past a slouched-over man who was groaning audibly. Although all the students passed the man, they were each given a varying sense of urgency by the researchers before…”— Omar Parbhoo, behavioralscientist.org
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“The people who say technology has disconnected you from others are wrong. So are the people who say technology automatically connects you to others. Technology is just a tool. It's a powerful tool, but it's just a tool. Deep human connection is very different. It's not a tool. It's not a means to an…”— Melinda Gates, today.duke.edu
“The greatest compliment one can give to an open spirit and heart, is to be gentle, to reciprocate the energy bestowed, and to be honest if and when there is a shift in what can be given. This, is generosity.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“I think that kindness and generosity are infectious qualities, that when you carry them out, you often inspire others to do the same, and that one small act can actually have an exponential effect.”— Misha Collins, celebmix.com
“If you don't have a dollar to give, you STILL have your time, your focus, your voice. Be generous.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“If you don't have a pound to give, you STILL have your energy, your service, your heart. Be generous.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Give your time, give your heart, give your service, give someone something you made. It feels incredible.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“The real joy in giving comes when we give what we have spontaneously, with no reason other than for the joy of giving.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com