Quotes About Generosity

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them how to fish.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

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.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

Love - the more you share with others, the more you have.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

I wasn't jealous and I wasn't resentful. Maybe it's the people who are the least loved, provided they're not envious or bitter, who find the most love in themselves to give to others. Don't you think?

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

When you are told, It was meant to be, ask, Who meant it? What does it really mean? Is someone trying to make you accept an undesirable situation or one in which you have doubts? When you are told, Shit happens, remember that plenty of other things happen as well, such as generosity, forgiveness, ambiguity, and uncertainty. When you are told, It's simply fate, ask yourself, What is simple about it? What are the alternatives of fate? What is fate's opposite?

this book. I will try to repay all of you with sustenance

never make the cost of saving face so high that a man must go elsewhere to show how generous he is.

Aquel que es feliz puede hacer dichoso a los demás. Quien no pierde ni el valor ni la confianza, jamás perecerá por la miseria.

I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.