If you continually give, you will continually have . . .
This I’ve learned with time -
What you give, you always get back;
What you sow, you reap in kind.
Always be helpful to others
And give what you can spare;
For by being kind to strangers,
We may help angels unaware.
-Author Unknown
“The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have.” -Leonard Nimoy (1931 - 2015)
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.” -Clara Lucas Balfour (1808 - 1878): “Sunbeams for All Seasons: Counsels, Cautions, and Precepts” (1861)
A man there was, tho’ some did count him mad,
The more he cast away the more he had.
-John Bunyan: “Pilgrims Progress” (1678), Part Two, Section VII
In modern parlance, the above would be as follows.
A man there was, and they called him mad;
For the more he gave, the more he had.
-John Bunyan: “Pilgrims Progress” (1678), Part 2, Section 7
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Middlemarch” (1871)
“Givers get given to.” -Russell Simmons
“We are not put on this Earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are always there for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.” -Jeff Warner
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The Art of Giving
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart:
Love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the mind:
Ideas, dreams, purposes, ideals, principles, plans, inventions, projects, poetry.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the spirit:
Prayer, vision, beauty, aspiration, peace, faith.
We give of ourselves when we give the gift of words:
Encouragement, inspiration, guidance.
by Author Unknown
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“What counts most in life is what we do for others.” -Author Unknown
“It is not what we receive that enriches our lives, it is what we give.” -George Albert Smith
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward Heaven.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Al’s wife devoted a lot of her time to nursing sick birds, and Al was tired of it. One evening, he came home to find an oil-soaked seagull in his favorite chair while a duck on the ottoman pecked listlessly at a piece of fruit. He strode into the kitchen, where his wife was comforting a shivering little wren. “I can’t take it!” he yelled. “Please, dear,” she interrupted, “not in front of the children.”
“Give help rather than advice.” -Luc de Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747))
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” -John Andrew Holmes, Junior
“It’s not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.” -Patti Thor at www.PattiThor.com
“The giver receives more than the receiver gets.” -Author Unknown
“I wondered why somebody didn’t do something, and then I realized I am somebody.” -Lily Tomlin (born 1939)
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
“He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.” -A. P. Gouthey (Aldolph Philip Gouthey (some sources show Adolph Philip Gouthey (1892 - 1963)))
Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948), the Indian statesman and spiritual leader, was noted for his humanity and selflessness. Gandhi was boarding a train one day, with several companions and followers, when his shoe fell from his foot and disappeared in the gap between the train and platform. Unable to retrieve it, he took off his other shoe and threw it down by the first. Responding to the puzzlement of his fellow travelers, Gandhi explained that a poor person who finds a single shoe is no better off - what is really helpful is for a poor person to find a pair of shoes.
“The hand that gives is the hand that gets.” [English translation]
“An làmb a bheir, ’s i a gheibh.” [original Scots Gaelic]
-Author Unknown
“Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.” -Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek (1944 - 2019))
“When you find yourself in the position to help someone, be happy and feel blessed because God is answering that person’s prayer through you.” -Alberto P. Casing (similar quotation attributed to Becky Hernley Brown)
“What the poor need is not a hand-out, but a hand-up.” -Author Unknown
Riddle: Where is the best place to find a helping hand?
Answer: At the end of your own arm.
“The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.” -Fred Dehner
“As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior (John Davison Rockefeller, Junior (1874 - 1960)): in an interview with Samuel Johnson Woolf, as quoted in S. J. Woolf (Samuel Johnson Woolf): “Drawn from Life” (1932)
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” -Sally Koch
“When you help someone up a hill, you get nearer to the top yourself.” -Author Unknown
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” -Frank A. Clark (1911 - 1991)
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
One cold evening during the holiday season, a little boy of about six or seven years of age was standing out in front of a store window. The little child had no shoes on and his clothes were mere rags. A young woman passing by saw the little boy and could read the longing in his pale blue eyes. She took the child by the hand and led him into the store. There she bought him new shoes and a complete suit of warm clothing. They came back outside into the street and the woman said to the child, “Now you can go home and have a very happy holiday.” The little boy looked up at her and asked, “Are you God, Ma’am?” She smiled down at him and replied, “No son, I’m just one of His children.” The little boy said, “I knew you had to be some relation.”
“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” -Thomas Morell
“Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.” -Carmelia Elliott
“The best gifts cost so little: the gift of your presence, your welcoming smile, a pleasant greeting, a handshake or embrace, a nod of acknowledgement, a moment in time, a listening ear, a simple joke, a hearty laugh.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.” -Sidney J. Phillips
A big, strong man visited a church and asked to see the pastor’s wife, a woman well known for her charitable inclinations. “Madam,” he said in a broken voice, “I wish to draw your attention to the terrible plight of a poor family in this district. The father is dead, the mother is too ill to work, and the nine children are starving. They are about to be turned into the cold, empty streets unless someone pays their rent, which amounts to $2,400.” “How terrible!” exclaimed the pastor’s wife. “May I ask who you are?” The sympathetic visitor applied his handkerchief to his eyes. “I’m the landlord,” he sobbed.
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Acts,’ chapter 20, verse 35
A policeman was taking an accident report at an elementary school when he was interrupted by a six-year-old girl. She looked up and down at his uniform and asked, “Are you a policeman?” “Yes, I am,” he said. “My mother told me that if I ever needed help I should ask a policeman - is that right?” the girl asked. “Yes, it is,” said the policeman. The girl extended her foot to the policeman and said, “Okay, then, would you tie my shoe?”
Overheard: Sharing is caring!
“The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.” -Author Unknown: “The Talmud”
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco (born Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith; also known as Elizabeth Bibesco and Elizabeth Asquith (1897 - 1945))
“A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.” -Author Unknown
“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.” -Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957)
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” -Flora Edwards
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933))
“Don’t do for others what, given the chance, they wouldn’t do for themselves.” -Author Unknown
“One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but ends up impoverished.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Proverbs,’ chapter 11, verse 24
“Givers need set limits because takers rarely do.” -Rachel Wolchin
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
“There are people in life, and there are many of them, whom you will have to help as long as they live. They will never be able to stand alone.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
“You have to give before you get.” -Author Unknown
“The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.” -Catherine Hall
“It’s better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.” -Philip Gibbs (Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs (1877 - 1862)): “England Speaks” (1935), page 328
A minister soliciting for a worthy cause was turned down by a curt letter that ended, “As far as I can see, this Christian business is one continuous give, give, give.” The clergyman wrote back, “Thank you for the best definition of the Christian life I have ever heard.”
“A candle lights others and consumes itself.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don’t carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade.” -George Eliot -George Eliot (pseudonym of Marian Evans Cross, also known as Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Daniel Deronda” (1876)
“Keeping from falling, is better than helping up.” -Author Unknown
“Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others, only to discover we have made a difference in our own.” -Ellie Braun-Haley
The Old Woman of Leeds
There was an old woman of Leeds,
Who spent all her time in good deeds;
She worked for the poor
Till her fingers were sore,
This pious old woman of Leeds!
by Author Unknown
“Giving opens the way for receiving.” -Florence Scovel Shinn (1871 - 1940)
“He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Always help someone. You might be the only one who does so.” -Author Unknown
“Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior (John Davison Rockefeller, Junior (1874 - 1960))
“You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.” -Bryant McGill (born 1969)
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” -Homer
“It is in giving that we receive.” -Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226): “The Prayer of Saint Francis”
Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
-Doctor Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “The Lorax” (1971)
“The good you do for others will eventually find its way back to you, as echo returns to sender.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.” -Grace Spear
“He belongs to so many benevolent societies that he is destitute.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.” -Theocritus (about 300 B.C.E. - after 260 B.C.E.)
“You can get anything you want in this life if you help other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” -Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994): “Too Sensitive” (1967)
Thank you for joining us today on MFOL! . . . may the bluebird of happiness always be perched upon your windowsill . . .
This I’ve learned with time -
What you give, you always get back;
What you sow, you reap in kind.
Always be helpful to others
And give what you can spare;
For by being kind to strangers,
We may help angels unaware.
-Author Unknown
“The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have.” -Leonard Nimoy (1931 - 2015)
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.” -Clara Lucas Balfour (1808 - 1878): “Sunbeams for All Seasons: Counsels, Cautions, and Precepts” (1861)
A man there was, tho’ some did count him mad,
The more he cast away the more he had.
-John Bunyan: “Pilgrims Progress” (1678), Part Two, Section VII
In modern parlance, the above would be as follows.
A man there was, and they called him mad;
For the more he gave, the more he had.
-John Bunyan: “Pilgrims Progress” (1678), Part 2, Section 7
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “Middlemarch” (1871)
“Givers get given to.” -Russell Simmons
“We are not put on this Earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are always there for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.” -Jeff Warner
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The Art of Giving
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart:
Love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the mind:
Ideas, dreams, purposes, ideals, principles, plans, inventions, projects, poetry.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the spirit:
Prayer, vision, beauty, aspiration, peace, faith.
We give of ourselves when we give the gift of words:
Encouragement, inspiration, guidance.
by Author Unknown
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“What counts most in life is what we do for others.” -Author Unknown
“It is not what we receive that enriches our lives, it is what we give.” -George Albert Smith
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward Heaven.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Al’s wife devoted a lot of her time to nursing sick birds, and Al was tired of it. One evening, he came home to find an oil-soaked seagull in his favorite chair while a duck on the ottoman pecked listlessly at a piece of fruit. He strode into the kitchen, where his wife was comforting a shivering little wren. “I can’t take it!” he yelled. “Please, dear,” she interrupted, “not in front of the children.”
“Give help rather than advice.” -Luc de Vauvenargues (Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747))
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” -John Andrew Holmes, Junior
“It’s not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.” -Patti Thor at www.PattiThor.com
“The giver receives more than the receiver gets.” -Author Unknown
“I wondered why somebody didn’t do something, and then I realized I am somebody.” -Lily Tomlin (born 1939)
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” -Author Unknown
“He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.” -A. P. Gouthey (Aldolph Philip Gouthey (some sources show Adolph Philip Gouthey (1892 - 1963)))
Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948), the Indian statesman and spiritual leader, was noted for his humanity and selflessness. Gandhi was boarding a train one day, with several companions and followers, when his shoe fell from his foot and disappeared in the gap between the train and platform. Unable to retrieve it, he took off his other shoe and threw it down by the first. Responding to the puzzlement of his fellow travelers, Gandhi explained that a poor person who finds a single shoe is no better off - what is really helpful is for a poor person to find a pair of shoes.
“The hand that gives is the hand that gets.” [English translation]
“An làmb a bheir, ’s i a gheibh.” [original Scots Gaelic]
-Author Unknown
“Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.” -Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek (1944 - 2019))
“When you find yourself in the position to help someone, be happy and feel blessed because God is answering that person’s prayer through you.” -Alberto P. Casing (similar quotation attributed to Becky Hernley Brown)
“What the poor need is not a hand-out, but a hand-up.” -Author Unknown
Riddle: Where is the best place to find a helping hand?
Answer: At the end of your own arm.
“The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.” -Fred Dehner
“As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior (John Davison Rockefeller, Junior (1874 - 1960)): in an interview with Samuel Johnson Woolf, as quoted in S. J. Woolf (Samuel Johnson Woolf): “Drawn from Life” (1932)
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.” -Sally Koch
“When you help someone up a hill, you get nearer to the top yourself.” -Author Unknown
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” -Frank A. Clark (1911 - 1991)
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
One cold evening during the holiday season, a little boy of about six or seven years of age was standing out in front of a store window. The little child had no shoes on and his clothes were mere rags. A young woman passing by saw the little boy and could read the longing in his pale blue eyes. She took the child by the hand and led him into the store. There she bought him new shoes and a complete suit of warm clothing. They came back outside into the street and the woman said to the child, “Now you can go home and have a very happy holiday.” The little boy looked up at her and asked, “Are you God, Ma’am?” She smiled down at him and replied, “No son, I’m just one of His children.” The little boy said, “I knew you had to be some relation.”
“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” -Thomas Morell
“Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.” -Carmelia Elliott
“The best gifts cost so little: the gift of your presence, your welcoming smile, a pleasant greeting, a handshake or embrace, a nod of acknowledgement, a moment in time, a listening ear, a simple joke, a hearty laugh.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.” -Sidney J. Phillips
A big, strong man visited a church and asked to see the pastor’s wife, a woman well known for her charitable inclinations. “Madam,” he said in a broken voice, “I wish to draw your attention to the terrible plight of a poor family in this district. The father is dead, the mother is too ill to work, and the nine children are starving. They are about to be turned into the cold, empty streets unless someone pays their rent, which amounts to $2,400.” “How terrible!” exclaimed the pastor’s wife. “May I ask who you are?” The sympathetic visitor applied his handkerchief to his eyes. “I’m the landlord,” he sobbed.
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Acts,’ chapter 20, verse 35
A policeman was taking an accident report at an elementary school when he was interrupted by a six-year-old girl. She looked up and down at his uniform and asked, “Are you a policeman?” “Yes, I am,” he said. “My mother told me that if I ever needed help I should ask a policeman - is that right?” the girl asked. “Yes, it is,” said the policeman. The girl extended her foot to the policeman and said, “Okay, then, would you tie my shoe?”
Overheard: Sharing is caring!
“The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it.” -Author Unknown: “The Talmud”
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” -Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy, Princess Bibesco (born Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith; also known as Elizabeth Bibesco and Elizabeth Asquith (1897 - 1945))
“A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.” -Author Unknown
“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.” -Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957)
“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” -Flora Edwards
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933))
“Don’t do for others what, given the chance, they wouldn’t do for themselves.” -Author Unknown
“One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but ends up impoverished.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Proverbs,’ chapter 11, verse 24
“Givers need set limits because takers rarely do.” -Rachel Wolchin
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
“There are people in life, and there are many of them, whom you will have to help as long as they live. They will never be able to stand alone.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919)
“You have to give before you get.” -Author Unknown
“The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.” -Catherine Hall
“It’s better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.” -Philip Gibbs (Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs (1877 - 1862)): “England Speaks” (1935), page 328
A minister soliciting for a worthy cause was turned down by a curt letter that ended, “As far as I can see, this Christian business is one continuous give, give, give.” The clergyman wrote back, “Thank you for the best definition of the Christian life I have ever heard.”
“A candle lights others and consumes itself.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don’t carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow-trade.” -George Eliot -George Eliot (pseudonym of Marian Evans Cross, also known as Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880)): “Daniel Deronda” (1876)
“Keeping from falling, is better than helping up.” -Author Unknown
“Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others, only to discover we have made a difference in our own.” -Ellie Braun-Haley
The Old Woman of Leeds
There was an old woman of Leeds,
Who spent all her time in good deeds;
She worked for the poor
Till her fingers were sore,
This pious old woman of Leeds!
by Author Unknown
“Giving opens the way for receiving.” -Florence Scovel Shinn (1871 - 1940)
“He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Always help someone. You might be the only one who does so.” -Author Unknown
“Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior (John Davison Rockefeller, Junior (1874 - 1960))
“You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.” -Bryant McGill (born 1969)
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” -Homer
“It is in giving that we receive.” -Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226): “The Prayer of Saint Francis”
Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
-Doctor Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “The Lorax” (1971)
“The good you do for others will eventually find its way back to you, as echo returns to sender.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.” -Grace Spear
“He belongs to so many benevolent societies that he is destitute.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.” -Theocritus (about 300 B.C.E. - after 260 B.C.E.)
“You can get anything you want in this life if you help other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” -Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994): “Too Sensitive” (1967)
Thank you for joining us today on MFOL! . . . may the bluebird of happiness always be perched upon your windowsill . . .
