A Quote by Joy Browne
Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.
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If we had enough cadaver organs to go around we wouldn't do living donor liver transplants because one is we don't want to put a donor at risk, but the second is that it's a more difficult surgery for the recipient because you're getting a piece of a liver rather than a whole liver. It takes you longer to recover, and it has more complications related to where we sew together the blood vessels and the bile ducts.
Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.
My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
Weight Watchers says nothing tastes better than thin feels. I can think of a thousand things that taste better than thin feels.
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?
I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this.
In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!
A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.
There's nothing that feels better than to do something nice for somebody. I mean nothing feels better.
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