If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that–warm things, kind things, sweet things–help and comfort and laughter–and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. Frances Hodgson Burnett
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This quote says that we were born to give and that we can always give. This quote comes from a speech by Dorothy Day, but it is originally from the Bible: "Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."

Source: A Little Princess

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