Do you beg to give away your resources? Are you working passionately to find ways to bless others? This is a sign of true generosity.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice. Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?

People are fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

Aristotle called this land of attitude "enlightened selfishness." Zoroaster said, "Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness." And Benjamin Franklin summed it up very simply—"When you are good to others," said Franklin, "you are best to yourself.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.

They are far more likely to return the favor.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.