Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
~ Ann Bancroft
Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.
~ Louise Bernikow
Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
~ Mary Bateson
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.
~ Dorothy Solle
We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
~ Saint Augustine
[Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so you share your lives with people.
~ Ella Baker
For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.
~ Richard C. Trench
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.
~ Stephen S. Wise
Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.
~ Albert M. Wells
You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.
~ Anonymous
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
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.
~ Margaret Becker
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
~ Heda Bejar
You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.
~ Amy Carmichael
Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth.
~ Harriet King
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
~ Joseph Joubert
Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.
~ Elsie De Wolfe
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
~ George Santayana
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.
~ E. N. West
I was hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: I was naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye came unto me.
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
~ Marya Mannes
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
~ Max Beerbohm
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.
~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
~ Bible
God loveth a cheerful giver.
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.
~ Eva Peron
In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.
~ Richard Baxter
Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
~ Angela Merici
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
~ Miriam Beard
I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
~ Alexander Pope
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
~ Simone Weil
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
~ Clara Barton
In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.
