The Joy of Giving Center

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Phitar

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

 Maimonides

Today is a good day

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou 

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

Smiling Girl, Tatopani

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.

Princess Elizabeth, Asquith Bibesco

Alight 

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

Winston Churchill 

Thomas Hawk 

 Soulful giving occurs when our innermost essence, our unique and deepest self, is an intergal part of the act.

Give to Your Heart's Content[19], Linda Harper 

I've Taken What You've Given to Me... by Thomas Hawk