Quotes About Generosity

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.

Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person's day – or maybe even his or her life.

Transcendent generosity is simply a willingness to be open and do whatever is necessary in the moment, without any philosophical or religious rationale. Seeing someone in need, you're willing to share your wealth, your happiness, or your wisdom, and you're also willing to share in the pain of others. Yet when you give, you need to do so with the awareness that your gift will be both appropriate and helpful.

Proud families spend fortunes on a one-day wedding ceremony for a marriage that may or may not last, while on the same day, in the same village, people are dying of starvation. A tourist makes a show of giving a ten-dollar tip to the doorman for pushing a revolving door, and the next minute he's bargaining for a five-dollar T-shirt from a vendor who is trying to support her baby and family.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it's the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Be a little kinder than you have to." We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with. Then Johnny says, "Never eat anything bigger than your ass.

Be a little kinder than you have to, Cady, and things will be all right.

I hand him the bag of fudge Granddad and I bought in Edgartown, and the way his face lights up at the chocolate tugs at my heart.

Always be a little nicer than you have to be

Be a little kinder than you have to." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Be a little kinder - Mirren