On Giving

• “Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
  Henry Ward Beecher

• “The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ”
  - Hada Bejar

• "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
  - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
  Sir Winston Churchill

On Hope

• “I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”
  -Aeschylus, 456BC

• “Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the food new is wining out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.”
  -Anna Lappe, 2003

• “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.”
  -Anne Lamont

• “Hope is a waking dream.”
  -Aristotle, 322 BC

• “While there's life, there's hope.”
  -Cicero, 43BC

• “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”
  -Emily Dickinson, 1881

• “Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”
  -H. Jackson Brown

• “Hope is necessary in every condition.”
  -Samuel Johnson, 1780

• “I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope"
  -William Walsh