Giving Tuesday: The Great Meaning Behind It

Giving Tuesday

The first Tuesday following Thanksgiving Day is always known as the giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a day of sharing, gifting, or giving something to someone to show that their matter.

It’s a day of giving to someone who might or might not be in need of assistance. It’s a day to show appreciating or gratitude by sharing what you have.

Giving can be as simple as gifting, donating, or even sharing something you have that others might not. You can donate to a charity of your choice for instance, to show your love.

You can give by gifting to someone who might be alone during these holiday seasons to brighten up their day. For example, the nursery homes or orphanages often don’t get many visitors or get to go to places they want to. A simple letter or a gift sent to them might make their day.

Giving doesn’t always have to monetary or objects based. It can just be something from the heart. A simple letter, a text, a phone call to say you’re thinking of them is a gift within itself. Some people love the sentimental things in life and might appreciate the thoughtfulness.

Sometimes even a simple gesture of gratitude can be shown through a wave hello, a simple hug, or even a high five of encouragements.

One gesture of a friend of mine does is she leaves out a basket full of goodies for the delivery service men/women who work daily to deliver packages everywhere. A simple snack and water to grab and go is a wonderful gesture of giving.

What is your way of giving on this giving Tuesday?

Quotes On Giving Tuesday

~ “Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have!” – Jim Rohan

~ “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Mohammed Ali

~ “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank

~ “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others” – Martin Luther King Jr.

~ “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi 

~ “This Giving Tuesday please remember that it’s not about how much you can give. Big things happen when we all chip in a buck or two. And your time is valuable! If you’re able, consider spending a few hours volunteering in your community this season.” – Chasten Buttigieg

~ “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens

~ “Love cannot remain by itself — it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.” – Mother Teresa

~ “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” ~ Maya Angelou

~  “The most precious thing I have to give is my time.” – Silvia Hartman

~ “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.” – Brian Tracy

~ “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

~ “If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.” – Warren Buffett

~ “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” – Shannon L. Adler

~ “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” – Mother Teresa

~  “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

~ “The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” – Mitch Albom 

~ “It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.” – Albert Einstein

~ “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson