Suze Orman Quotes

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

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.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.