Quotes About Generosity

There's a great trick to escaping the pain of loss, and that is giving.

And now Patrick owed her. You hardly ever run into the kind of person who can really hold you in an open hand, never threatened or competitive, always loving you enough to want you to have everything you've imagined possible. Angie, only twenty-three, had that down. She was all selfless love. She was going to leave her mark and the world would be a better place for it.

One of the best ways to help the world is to never be a burden to it. Give money, give time, give love, and make sure you give yourself a little to spare so you're not the one in need.

You don't have to do that, Rev. Really." "I know I don't have to, but it seems only fair. I could either raise your pay to eight twenty-five an hour or offer you lunch. I went with the lunch idea." "You're actually a very nice guy, aren't you?" "Ellie, I'm a man of God. Don't you expect nice?" Then he grinned. "Does God know you're throwing his name around to impress people?

I'm being too pushy, aren't I?" Ellie shook her head. "I don't deserve you," she said in a whisper. "I think you're the best friend I've ever had. At least since my gramma…" Jo shrugged. "Honey, you're my only shot at something that resembles a daughter and grandchildren. And I intend to nurture the opportunity. I'm just saying—this is your home for as long as you want it." *

When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.

Love is not a contractual exchange. Love is given with no expectation of return. Love does not keep a ledger.

She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind.

A Lesson Nasrudin was teaching his son life lessons. "Never give anybody anything immediately," he said. "Wait until at least a couple of days have gone by." "But why?" his son inquired. "Because," Nasrudin responded, "people appreciate receiving something much more if they first have to doubt whether or not they will actually get it!

Constantinople is a city larger than its renown proclaims. May God in his grace and generosity deign to make it the capital of Islam.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.

When for self, prayer and wish no good; only work good for self. But when wish with heart for other, can help.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

a doctor in Manhattan saved a dying man for free.

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

Had he been sent to them like a kind of sun, pouring light into the world without asking for anything in return?

Love is not a thought, it is an action. And each loving action that we take infuses us with more energy for loving action in the future.

Ma se tu ami veramente qualcuno o qualcosa, dagli tutto quello che hai e anche tutto quello che sei, e fregatene del resto…

I distrust official charity.All charity should be done by stealth.

joined the circle and prayed with these men [homeless] who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion.

was embarrassed that I once thought myself superior to him, stooping to sprinkle my wealth and wisdom into his lowly life.

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?

most well-meaning and generous Parisians were aware, in general, of the laws restricting the lives of their Jewish cohabitants but had convinced themselves that the government was only trying to control immigration and "terrorism.