Quotes About Generosity

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

Já eu, raramente empresto um livro. Se quero que alguém leia um certo livro, compro um exemplar e ofereço-lho. Acredito que emprestar um livro é incitar ao furto.

The existence of the text is a silent existence, silent until the moment in which a reader reads it. Only when the able eye makes contact with the markings on the tablet does the text come to active life. All writing depends on the generosity of the reader.

Imensamente generosos, os meus livros, não me fazem nenhuma exigência, antes me oferecem todo tipo de iluminação.

Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Bernard was duly grateful (it was an enormous comfort to have his friend again) and also duly resentful (it would be pleasure to take some revenge on Helmholtz for his generosity).

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

Let us be kind to one another.

BE KINDER THAN YOU HAVE TO BE.

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least.

Emma was happy. She realized that happiness is something that springs from the generous treatment of others, and that until one makes that connection, happiness may prove elusive.

There are many more kind people than not-so-kind people," said Mma Ramotswe.

It was another of Mma Makutsi's odd statements—utterly unfounded in fact, Mma Ramotswe suspected, but not a point that she wished to argue. As far as she was concerned, if a chair was empty, then anybody should be welcome to sit in it. We should share our chairs, she felt. Maybe that was the real problem with the modern world—not enough of us were prepared to share our chairs.

As a general rule, making other people happy is one of the few things we can do with utter certainty that what we're doing is the right thing.

We should be happy when people have chairs," he admonished. "We should be happy, even if we do not have a chair ourselves.

there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the other person doesn't. It was simple--almost too simple--advice and yet, like all such home advice, it expressed a profound truth.

So much had occurred, and so many of the things that had happened were bad. And yet there had been good things—acts of kindness, acts of loyalty and generosity of spirit; why did we forget these and remember only the bad?

We should not be too surprised by the kindness of strangers, as it is always there.

you want to be charitable, then I think you should start at home—right under your nose—and give Charlie more money, rather than help this distant cousin—so distant that we'd need binoculars to see him, Mma.

Gratitude was a lost art, she felt. People accepted things, took them as their right, and had forgotten how to give proper thanks.

a list of people who drive Mercedes-Benzes, and he checks to see if they have made up for it by being kind to people.