Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness - Martin Luther King
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity - Simone Weil
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations - Rabindranath Tagore
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give - Sir Winston Churchill
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed - Seneca
The rich man never really gives anything; he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives - George Eastman, American businessman
The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation - Peter Marshall
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose - Hada Bejar
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing - Simone de Beauvoir
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever - Margaret Cho