When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?

If the blessing stops with you, it'll eventually stop altogether! Instead of being a conduit for blessing and maintaining forward momentum, we settle for sideways energy.

So how do we conserve the momentum of God's blessing? At the risk of sounding like a memorandum issued by the department of redundancy department, the only way to maintain momentum is to flip the blessing. If we fail to flip the blessing, we hit the point of diminishing return. Eventually, we lose all spiritual momentum and wonder why. I'll tell you exactly why: God doesn't bless selfishness.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.