Learn Through Quotations

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”

“God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”

“No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.”

“Love, true love, is that which can give the most without asking or demanding anything in return.”

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

“Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.”

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

“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”

“I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her destiny with great power for a specific purpose to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love.”

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ”

“If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

“It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.”

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

“Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.”

“He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.”

“A bell is no bell 'till you ring it, A song is no song 'till you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'till you give it away.”

“Peace, like charity, begins at home.”

“Mother's love grows by giving.”

“A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.”