– Winston Churchill
Life is an echo — what you send out comes back.
– Unknown
There is a wonderful mythical 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
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
– Andre Gide
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity
and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows — he
breathes but does not live.
– Sanskrit Proverb
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
– Calvin Coolidge
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do
know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who
have sought and found how to serve.
– Albert Schweitzer
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 year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
– Chinese proverb
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
– Seneca
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
– George Eliot
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions,
and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that
kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
– Lawrence G. Lovasik
Giving opens the way for receiving.
– Florence Scovel Shinn
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If
you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have
enough.
– Oprah Winfrey
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
– William James
Appreciation can make a day–even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
– Margaret Cousins
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
– Gladys Browyn Stern
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.
– Unknown
