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

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

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

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Value is what you get.

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.

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

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

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.

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.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

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.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

I like to give back.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.