I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.
Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much. – Mahatma Gandhi
If you give money, spend yourself with it. – Henry David Thoreau
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. – Saint Augustine (354-430) Theologian.
On that best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. The Reverend Mae “Mother” Wyatt
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others. – Booker T. Washington
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Seneca
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. – Marie Curie
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. – Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. – Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Irish-born English satirist.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. – John D. Rockefeller
The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter. – Aristotle
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Seneca
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