"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
— Mother Teresa

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. "
— Shel Silverstein (The Giving Tree)

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."
— Mother Teresa

"Give 100% of yourself only to the people who know how to give it back, and hold nothing over your head for the days when you can barely give an ounce. "
— Stefanie McNamara

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."
— Chief Seattle (Chief Seattle's Speech)

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
— Charles Dickens

"Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you."
— Alexander McCall Smith (Love Over Scotland)

"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
— Lenore Hershey

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know beacause I've done it thousands of times."
— Mark Twain

"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)

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
— Amy Carmichael

"Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received."
— Antonio Porchia

"Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it."
— Peter S. Beagle (A Fine and Private Place)

"Giving of any kind... taking an action... begins the process of change, and moves us to remember that we are part of a much greater universe. "
— Mbali Creazzo

"'I won't suffer, be broken
get tired or wasted
surrender to nothing
or give up
what i started and stop it
from end to beginning
a new day is comming
and i am finally free'"
— 30 seconds to mars attack

"He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.

–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---"
— Manet

"Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it.
Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that?"
— Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)

"For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles."
— Barry Lopez (About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory)

"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."
— George Eliot

"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 Gibrán (Xian zhi)

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
— Pierre Corneille

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value."
— Charles Dudley Warner

"The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
"
— Baltasar Gracián

"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

""Getters don't get--givers get." "
— Eugene Benge

"They can say whatever I'ma do whatever no pain is forever
Yup! you know this
Tougher then a lion ain't kno need in trying I live where the sky ends
Yup! you kno this
"
— Rihanna

"You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me."
— Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)

"Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed."
— Jon M. Huntsman (Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children)

"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing."
— Vernon McLellan