The researchers discovered that givers of compassionate acts benefit from them, whether or not the acts are explicitly noticed by the recipient. (ahealthblog.com)
Advent bears good tidings that this is the One who comes as body and blood, bread and wine, to hungry mouths at the Eucharist feast, and who comes back to us through compassionate acts of filling the hungry with good things. (religion-online.org)
It's clear that the recipient of compassionate act needs to notice the act to benefit from it emotionally, but for the giver, recognition is much less of a factor. (ahealthblog.com)