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[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism, to chemism, to polarity, to the vegetable and to the animal kingdom. And if we suppose this to have been done, the last link in the chain would be animal sensibility - that is knowledge - which would consequently now appear as a mere modification or state of matter produced by causality. Now if we had followed materialism thus far with clear ideas, when we reached its highest point we would suddenly be seized with a fit of the inextinguishable laughter of the Olympians. As if waking from a dream, we would all at once become aware that its final result - knowledge, which it reached so laboriously, was presupposed as the indispensable condition of its very starting-point, mere matter; and when we imagined that we thought matter, we really thought only the subject that perceives matter; the eye that sees it, the hand that feels it, the understanding that knows it. Thus the tremendous petitio principii reveals itself unexpectedly.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations.
— Karl Marx, The German Ideology
You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t work because it can’t love back.
— Leland Dirks, Seven Dogs in Heaven
A lot of people with a lot of ill gotten wealth may think that they have high net worth, but will simply never be worthy of any trust or respect.
— Jeroninio Almeida, Karma Kurry for the Mind, Body, Heart & Soul
They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
— John le Carré, Call for the Dead
The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective, whether it be matter in the abstract, simply as it is thought, or after it has taken form, is empirically given - that is to say, is substance, the chemical element with its primary relations. Some such thing it takes, as existing absolutely and in itself, in order that it may evolve organic nature and finally the knowing subject from it, and explain them adequately by means of it; whereas in truth all that is objective is already determined as such in manifold ways by the knowing subject through its forms of knowing, and presupposes them; and consequently it entirely disappears if we think the subject away. Thus materialism is the attempt to explain what is immediately given us by what is given us indirectly.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and…so little vs. …so much!
— Wes Adamson
In the social production which men carry on they enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material powers of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society—the real foundation, on which rise legal and political superstructures and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
— Karl Marx, Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critque of Political Economy
I have nothing to lose. I keep all my valuables in a safe.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cultural relativism, and philosophical skepticism.
— Terry Eagleton
It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
— Anthony Liccione
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
— Edward Witten
The less you need, the more you live
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
— Henry David Thoreau, A Plea For Captain John Brown
Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify
— Robert T. Pennock
Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.
— William Carey, An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens
I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those who say that money can’t buy one love make it sound as if love can buy one money.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to church but they cannot even manage the condition of their own souls. They take pride to state the name of their religions and broadcast these things on facebook and everywhere, thinking that the nature of their religion represents the nature of their spirit. It's just the same as how they present their cars, houses, and degrees to the world— to stand as a representation of what they are. That's not spirituality; that's still materialism. Yes, perhaps your car, house and degree represents what you've achieved (or what your status in society is); but your religion does not represent what your spirit is like. You cannot go to a certain church or belong to a certain group of people and have that be a replica of your spirit.
— C. JoyBell C.
Societies need self sacrificing ignorant crowd;Religions need fearful followers;Systems need obedient slaves;Corporate world needs compulsive consumers,andI NEED THE COURAGE TO RISE ABOVE THESE FOUR PARASITES.
— Saurabh Sharma
Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.
— Thomas Brooks
The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte.
— Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Materialism is an identity crisis.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
He looked at them and saw their faces did not fit. The skin on the skulls crawled and twitched like half-solid paste. All the heads in his angle of vision seemed irregular lumps, like potatoes but without a potato’s repose: potatoes with crawling surfaces punctured by holes which opened and shut, holes blocked with coloured jelly or fringed with bone stumps, elastic holes through which air was sucked or squirted, holes secreting salt, wax, spittle and snot. He grasped a pencil in his trouser pocket, wishing it were a knife he could thrust through his cheek and use to carve his face down to the clean bone. But that was foolish. Nothing clean lay under the face. He thought of sectioned brains, palettes, eyeballs and ears seen in medical diagrams and butcher’s shops. He thought of elastic muscle, pulsing tubes, gland sacks full of lukewarm fluid, the layers of cellular and fibrous and granular tissues inside a head. What was felt as tastes, caresses, dreams and thoughts could be seen as a cleverly articulated mass of garbage.
— Alasdair Gray, Lanark
I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world
— Ashly Lorenzana
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.
— Zeena Schreck, Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue
When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’ psychological causes and explanations for social and historical ones. This accusation reflects a radical misunderstanding of Freudian theory. There is indeed a real problem about how social and historical factors are related to the unconscious; but one point of Freud’s work is that it makes it possible for us to think of the development of the human individual in social and historical terms. What Freud produces, indeed, is nothing less than a materialist theory of the making of the human subject. We come to be what we are by an interrelation of bodies — by the complex transactions which take place during infancy between our bodies and those which surround us. This is not a biological reductionism: Freud does not of course believe that we are nothing but our bodies, or that our minds are mere reflexes of them. Nor is it an asocial model of life, since the bodies which surround us, and our relations with them, are always socially specific.
— Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.--"Bomar
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.
— Claire Cross, Double Trouble
Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house."Daniel could not resist asking, because he really wanted to know. "Need they be mutually exclusive? Can't we have both love and house?"Joe smiled. "Certainly. But one must consider carefully how one goes about getting the house.
— Susan Trott, The Holy Man
Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall, nor must we linger fruitlessly on one rung of the ladder. Material laws alone do not explain our life or give it direction. The laws of physics and physiology will never reveal the indisputable manner in which the Creator constantly, day in and day out, participates in the life of each of us, unfailingly granting us the energy of existence; when this assistance leaves us, we die. And in the life of our entire planet, the Divine Spirit surely moves with no less force: this we must grasp in our dark and terrible hour.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
— Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as material satisfaction. This reminds us, ironically, that choosing NOT to consider life's deeper questions is in itself a choice with profound and lasting consequences.
— Bryan M. Litfin, The Sword
Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.
— Claire Cross, Double Trouble
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
— H.W. Brands, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. ...At one time the full flood of materialistic ideas prevails, and everything in this life—prosperity, the education which procures more pleasures, more food—will become glorious at first and then that will degrade and degenerate. Along with the prosperity will rise to white heat all the inborn jealousies and hatreds of the human race. Competition and merciless cruelty will be the watchword of the day. To quote a very commonplace and not very elegant English proverb, "Everyone for himself, and the devil take the hindmost", becomes the motto of the day. Then people think that the whole scheme of life is a failure. And the world would be destroyed had not spirituality come to the rescue and lent a helping hand to the sinking world. Then the world gets new hope and finds a new basis for a new building, and another wave of spirituality comes, which in time again declines. As a rule, spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centered in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.
— Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3
Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost always blame everyone but themselves for their miseries. Shut up within themselves, they are necessarily shut off from all others except to criticize them. Since the essence of sin is opposition to God’s will, it follows that the sin of one individual is bound to oppose any other individual whose will is in harmony with God’s will. This resulting estrangement from one’s fellow man is intensified when one begins to live solely for this world, then the possessions of the neighbor are regarded as something unjustly taken from oneself. Once the material becomes the goal of life, a society of conflicts is born.
— Fulton J. Sheen
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
— Charles Dickens
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
— Winston S. Churchill
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
— Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn's Family
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.
— Mother Teresa
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
— George Eliot
You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
— Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
— Brian Tracy
It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.
— Amit Ray
[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)
— Penelope Quest, Reiki for Life: A Complete Guide to Reiki Practice
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
— Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur
What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.
— David McGee
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.
— Oswald Chambers
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
— Vernon McLellan
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up
— Bernard Meltzer
The simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime.
— Wes Adamson
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
The more you love, the more love you are given to love with.
— Lucien Price
If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.
— Michelle    Moore, Selling Simplified
Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
— Kahlil Gibran, Xian zhi
Writing a check was easily done, and easily done with. It allows us to do "charity" while keeping at bay the inner tug that urges us to give more of ourselves and our time, rather than our possessions.
— Joseph Langford
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The energy that mosquitoes need to lay eggs is neither the same as that which elephants need to bring forth nor that which a woman needs to push, yet they all need a certain amount of energy vital for them to produce something! Go help somebody for God’s sake; your little is vital! Your little will inspire! Your little will bring smiles! Go help somebody now!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.
— David Mathis, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
For the Christian, the issue is not just that we give, but how. ‘God loves a cheerful giver’ (2 Cor. 9:7). And giving gladly rests on the great why of Christian generosity: that Christ himself—our Savior, Lord, and greatest treasure—demonstrated the ultimate in generosity in coming to buy us back. ‘Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich’ (2 Cor. 8:9). If Jesus is in us, then increasingly such an open-handed tendency will be in us as well.
— David Mathis, Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines
Humans are givers by nature; that's why it's easier to do something for another than for oneself. Try it, you'll see what I mean.
— Charbel Tadros
If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact would love like none other.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact love like none other.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The gift of a good story is as infinite as the stars.
— Jennifer  LeBlanc
WHEN WE GIVE FROM A PLACE OF LOVE,RATHER THAN FROM A PLACE OF EXPECTATION, MORE USUALLY COMES BACK TO US THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.
— Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
If the enemy attacks, it is because God is giving you much more
— Sunday Adelaja
The Dark Powers have to give before they can take.
— Stephen King, The Plant
The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
— Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
We don't need a degree to learn the art of giving. We just need a heart.
— Abaida Mahmood
We have to begin giving them the whole truth about premarital sex and the difficulties it can cause.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
There's a new kind of Giving-I remember when Philanthropy was inconspicuous and anonymous.Now it has turned in to " Look at me, I just saved the world" kind of show.
— Charmaine J. Forde
Heaven is eternal. The earth endures.The reason for heaven's eternity and earth's enduranceis that they do not live for themselves only, and thereby live forever.The sage steps back but remains in front,the outside always within.Self is realized through selflessness.
— Sam Hamill, Tao Te Ching
A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.
— Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle
The giving hand is considered powerful
—  the receiving hand is considered weak. It’s better to give than to receive.
Giving is the only gift we should all endeavour to give the world each day.
— Auliq-Ice
People die of love. I’m one of the few who’ll admit it. That doesn’t mean it isn’t true.Take all the people who died yesterday, or last week, or last year. Subtract all the suicides and the so-called accidents of the brokenhearted. Take away the men who got blown away for being in the wrong bed at the wrong moment, the women in abusive marriages who died of cancer because they couldn’t find any other exit from their lives. All the AIDS deaths except from the needles and the transfusions, the ones they call the innocent victims. Like if you have sex, you’re guilty. Deserved just what you got.Now tell me who all you’ve got left.Without love the world would be overpopulated, except that without love it wouldn’t be populated at all. Love giveth and love taketh away and all that crap. You’ll probably say all those people died from the lack of love, but I say it’s two sides of the same coin. So it’s the same coin.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
If the gift of God is for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The Holy Spirit never uses guilt or shame to persuade us to give. For that matter, he never persuades us to give in the first place. That's called manipulation, a device employed by a different spirit.
— Ron Brackin
Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and understand the hunger of other, different men and women, and make a gesture of welcome, and eat with them. And just as I hadn't "deserved" any of what had been given to me—the fish, the biscuits, the tea so abundantly poured out back in those years—I didn't deserve communion myself now. I wasn't getting it because I was good. I wasn't getting it because I was special. I certainly didn't get to pick who else was good enough, holy enough, deserving enough, to receive it. It wasn't a private meal. The bread on that Table had to be shared with everyone in order for me to really taste it.
— Sara  Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.
— Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life
Giving is a stream of abundance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Giving is Living
— Joseph Mercier
Giving him our plans is giving him ourselves.
— Suzanne Eller, Come with Me: Discovering the Beauty of Following Where He Leads
The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Giving back is so important. Give back to your communities in whatever way you can. With donations, items or with your time. The Universe blesses a generous heart.
— Eileen Anglin
Whatever you sow, you will reap.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.
— Eric Ludy, When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
A good heart is a universal key that opens the door of the unthinkable gate of goodness
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Giving freely is sharing freely.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
makes it look easy when its not,I can say it all that I want,but do I mean it?.
— Jordan Hoechlin
When you plant the seeds, wait patiently to see the ripen fruits.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When we give out to others we are also giving to our selves. It builds a life of meaning
— Angie karan
You can NEVER be poor by giving and showing love to others.
— Kemi Sogunle
Giving develops discipline and an awareness of others' misfortune, which helps you to focus on what is truly important.
— Steve Repak, 6 Week Money Challenge: For Your Personal Finances
Real love never fails, never fades, and the greatest expression of it is giving.
— Gena Showalter, A Mad Zombie Party
You cannot receive until you learn to release.
— Kemi Sogunle
...and the minute I stopped giving-the love ceased.
— miriamelizabeth
Giving feels fantastic and for there to be a Giver, there must be a Receiver, so allowing yourself to receive is an act of love.
— Rebecca O’Dwyer
Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.
— Jan Karon
Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.
— Shannon Kopp, Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman's Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life
I thought of you when I read this quote from "Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)" by Jan Karon -"Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.
— Jan Karon
You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
giving is a duty not a choice. Giving has no boundaries but it may be done under a noble discretion
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
More for others then yourself.
— Sixeye
Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.
— Sunday Adelaja
Love without sharing is torture. Love without giving is death.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.
— Elizabeth von Arnim, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther
Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
The more you get, the more you get to give.
— J.R. Rim
Active love doesn’t ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person?
— Cole Ryan, Dating: I Think We've Missed The Point
Giving is a quality of God Himself
— Sunday Adelaja
Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didn’t understand most of my life is that sharing includes serving oneself. It is a subtle distinction, one too subtle for most adults, though most children understand it.
— Robert Peate
Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too..
— Baris Gencel
People come in my house and say, “I like this.” I say, “Do you want it?” Isn’t that the Christian thing to do?
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too..
— Baris Gencel
Maybe that was the point of giving after all. He thought he'd given to fill others. He thought giving would allow others to fill him. But he'd had it wrong. Giving laid the holes bare and revealed his insufficiency to fill or be filled. To truly give, he had to lean wholly on God. The Lord alone could use him to help others, and the Lord alone could replenish his empty stores.
— Sarah Sundin, Where Treetops Glisten: Three Stories of Heartwarming Courage and Christmas Romance During World War II
The act of giving, abundant life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness comes from loving and giving
— Debasish Mridha
The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You don't need fear to make a decision for you. Let your heart make the decision. It's because you have love in your heart, that you act on it. Don't do things so you can avoid something that you fear. Do things because you have love to give. Where is your focus? Are you heart-centered in your intentions? Focus on love and love is what you shall receive in return. Whenever you give something, always give it from your heart. If there's no heart behind the intention, don't give it at all. No one wants to receive a gift that comes with a bitter taste.
— Jason Micheal Ratliff
The more you give, the more you can give.
— Roy  Bennett
Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.
— Tony D'Souza, Whiteman
We are all we got in this world why not help each other.
— Alcurtis Turner
Giving has no relation or companionship
— Unarine Ramaru
To get he had tried,yet his store was still meager.To a wise man he cried,in a voice keen and eager;Pray tell me how I may successfully live?And the wise man replied,"To get you must give."As to giving he said,"What have I to give?"I've scarce enough bread,and of course one must live;But I would partake of Life's bountifulstore. Came the wise man's response;"Then you must give more."The lesson he learned;to get was forgotten,Toward mankind he turnedwith a love new begotten.As he gave of himself in useful living,Then joy crowned his days,for he grew rich in giving.
— Arthur William Beer
We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.
— Amit Ray
Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.
— Lisa Wingate, The Prayer Box
Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Generosity is not always tax deductible.
— Ken Solts
The story of Andrew Ewing is partly one of rags to riches – but there is more to it than that, since his business success was combined with a generosity of spirit that led him to give away a fortune in pursuit of his ultimate ambition to die a poor man.
— Bill     Scott, The Buttercup: The Remarkable Story of Andrew Ewing and the Buttercup Dairy Company
On Saturday mornings Mr Ewing would make his rounds, giving each tradesman £1 and the apprentices, ten shillings. Needless to say, we were all peeping around corners awaiting his arrival!
— Ian Thompson
Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
— Kahlil Gibran, A Tear and a Smile
I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.
— Mia Farrow, What Falls Away: A Memoir
I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books. The gifts to them and the head of nursing were also meant to acknowledge that although people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields.
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
When you see and know that your wellspring is an Eternal Source, and not other people around you, or your past experiences, not even your life story, that is when you are able to truly give to others, without running out and without feeling empty. Because I see God in everything that I touch and feel and think and because I believe that He sees me in everything, too, hence I am able to give to others without thinking of myself as limited source. What I have doesn't come from others, it doesn’t come from my life story and it doesn’t come from a box. What I have comes from a wellspring, an Eternal Source. The good news is that it never runs out, there is plenty for all and for everyone.
— C. JoyBell C.
Rather than a vanity paycheck it feels better to give something of far more value than entertainment or money. Sometimes gifts can be priceless like that of love which is everything, connection, inspiration, devotion, attention, purpose…
— Di Lee
Just like downing a powerful caffeine drink, “reaching out to others” pays that big “life energizer dividend!
— Wes Adamson
The Bible's "it's better to give than receive" was not the raving of a lunatic. It goes back to a recurring theme that I've found in almost all my experiments: behaviour shapes your thoughts. My brain sees me giving a gift to Julie. My brain concludes I must really love her. I love her all the more. Which means I'm happier in my relationship, if a bit poorer.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
Prosperity is not a promise, it’s a covenant. You don’t pray to get prosperity, you give to get it. Prosperity is not measured by how much you get but how much you give.
— McWilton Chikwenengere
Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?
— John Wesley
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder stuff that knocked him onto the streets in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, he’s actually going to spend it on food (homeless people do eat, right?). Maybe, he really is a desperate human being who is trying to change his situation.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.
— Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.
— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
Everything he was, he gave to her.
— L.J. Smith
Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
— Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
Deliver more than you promise.
— Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
I wish I were like Facebook
—  being able to 'like' and 'share' everything I get.
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
Generousity invents prosperity
— Binye Vincent
Giving is the key to all success in all applications of human life.
— Bryant McGill
God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14
—  9:11)
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.
— Taisen Deshimaru
As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives.
— Oswald Chambers, A New Testament Walk with Oswald Chambers
..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the charm of usefulness and sadness of his giving.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?
— Holly Robinson, Sleeping Tigers
i'm out to make difference in the world, to lead the way by giving much and giving often.
— Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Mortal Friends
The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.
— David Dunn
It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial empires--which prophecy tells us will perish--and so slow to build God's kingdom?
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.
— Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions and Eternity
I don't care what they say, we are only to love those who deserve our love and love them to the degree that they deserve it! You see, we are not God. Only God can love people undeserving without spoiling them. Us, on the other hand, can love someone so undeserving, and actually turn the person into someone so vile who is convinced that they were always entitled to every bit of it! Mamma mia! And what about giving? Yes, they all want us to give and expect nothing in return, they all have many scriptures to lay on our tables when it is they who are at the receiving end! But when the tables are turned and we are the ones at the receiving end, suddenly all the scriptures mean something else! And all the times they were on our end and we gave to them- suddenly are all forgotten!
— C. JoyBell C.
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
— Randy Alcorn
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
— Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.
— Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
You can give without loving ,but you can't love without giving.
— Jazlyn Roehl
There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.
— Marion G. Romney
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
— Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
Shame is a soul eating emotion.
— C.G. Jung
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
— Brené Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.
— Brené Brown
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
— Kathryn Lasky, The Journey
If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.
— Tucker Max, Assholes Finish First
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead