To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Every time you get something, give something away.
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.
If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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