994 Quotes About Charity

You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.

You don’t go to church to find God; you bring him with you—attitude.

Violence is as much a part of what is means to be poor as being hungry, sick, homeless, or jobless. In fact, as we shall see, violence is frequently the problem that poor people are most concerned about. It is one of the core reasons they are poor in the first place, and one of the primary reasons they stay poor. Indeed, we will simply never be able to win the battle against extreme poverty unless we address it.

Selflessness conquers homelessness.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

If throughout your entire life you make no fortune; travel next to nowhere; obtain a meager education; invent nothing new; are a stranger to fame; lack talent, wit, and charm—if these things are true and yet in the heart of every human who crosses your path you plant a seed of happiness, or, at the very least, you coax a smile from the saddest faces, your life will indeed be the greatest success story ever.

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.