Living is Giving

It is the will and not the gift that makes the giver. G. E. Lessing

It is more blessed to give than to receive is the German proverb, for Living is Giving.

You've probably heard this phrase before, and I know some of you have thought: "What nonsense!"

Really?

Living is giving says it all. Yes, living is giving. Goethe already knew that, as he aptly put it:

Only he who likes to give is happy.

He added,

Don't say that you wa…