John Bunyan

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

John Bunyan

Mark Twain

"How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good."

Mark Twain

Vernon McLellan

"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing."

Vernon McLellan

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wendy Mass

"A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."

The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"

The old man replied simply, "The one you feed."

Wendy Mass

Elizabeth Gilbert

"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."

Elizabeth Gilbert

George Eliot

"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves."

George Eliot