Frank A. Clark Quotes

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

How much good do you suppose condescending charity does?

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.

Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.