"You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want."

-- Nina Simone

"Giving and receiving

the day night of life

one without the other

misses the point."

-- Paul Reps

"Attention is an experience of giving."

-- Doug Germann

"Giving is the highest expression of potency."

-- Erich Fromm

"For it is to the humanity in a man that we give, not to his moral character."

Julian The Apostate

"When you are fully giving your gift, there is the feeling that there is nothing left in you as you."

-- David Deida

"A man there was and they called him mad; the more he gave the more he had."

-- John Bunyan