Erich Fromm ~

" Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, We experience strength, wealth, and power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills us with joy. We experience ourselves as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. "