I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

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

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Value is what you get.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I like to give back.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.