“Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ”

“Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.”

“I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”

“I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”

“ To reach satisfaction in all, desire satisfaction in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing. To come to the knowledge of all, desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to enjoy what you have not, you must go by a way in which you enjoy not. To come to the possession you have not, you must go by a way in which you possess not. To come to what you are not, you must go by a way in which you are not.   John of the Cross”

“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”