We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

— Unknown Source

What we have done for OURSELVES alone, dies with us; what we have done for OTHERS and the WORLD remains and is immortal.

— Unknown Source

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

— Virginia Satir, U.S. psychotherapist and author, 1916-1988

No one has ever become poor by giving.

— Anne Frank, German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945

Giving rarely moves in a straight line; it usually moves in circles.

— Unknown source

A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose.

— Chinese proverb

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916
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