Life is like a game of chess, in which there are an infinite number of complex moves possible. The choice is open, but the move contains within itself all future moves. One is free to choose, but what follows is the result of one's choice. From the consequences of one's action there is never any escape.
-- Shelley Smith in The Ballad of the Running Man
| The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. |
Albert Einstein |
| What you are is God's gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God. |
Anonymous |
| If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. |
Arabian Proverb |
| Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude. |
Ernest Hello |
| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
George Eliot |
| Charity sees the need, not the cause. |
German Proverb |
| A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. |
Jack London |
| Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. |
Kahlil Gibran |
| The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question, "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Give until it hurts. |
Mother Theresa |
| I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. |
William Penn |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. |
Winston Churchill |
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