Sometimes we get to see the miracle. Others times we get to be the miracle.

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

People who give with no strings attached almost always have an abundance mentality. They are generous because they believe that if they give, they will not run out of resources. Pastor and former college professor Henri Nouwen states, "When we refrain from giving, with a scarcity mentality, the little we have will become less. When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

People are most likely to help us after we have helped them in some way.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasures you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

Your ultimate goal as a leader should be to work hard enough and strategically enough that you have more than enough to give and share with others.

No one becomes rich unless he enriches another.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Simply turning our focus to the customer and offering them a heroic role in a meaningful story is enough to radically change the way we talk about, and even do, business.

At StoryBrand, we certainly give away the "why," but we also give away an awful lot of the "how." It's never cost me to be generous with my customers.