"Before death takes away what you are..." - Quote by Rumi
Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.
More by Rumi
“I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you've just left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more”
“On this path let the heart be your guide.”
“The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.”
More on Generosity
“A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.”
“We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.”
More on Giving
“No man can help another without helping himself.”
“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
“If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.”