Quotes About Generosity

Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving.

With what we give, we make a life.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Grant that when this day concludes and the Earth turns slowly outward to gaze into the night of space, I may bring a harvest of light and love as my gift to you.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.

cultures—people are spontaneously generous if forced to make instant decisions but begin to gravitate toward more selfish strategies if given time to think. All of this suggests that honest behavior is governed by automatic mental processes, whereas controlled processes are involved in lying or faking. In other words, effortless, unselfconscious behavior—behavior that is wu-wei—acts like a window into our true character.

are spontaneously generous if forced to make instant decisions but begin to gravitate toward more selfish strategies if given time to think.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The Degree of Loving is Measured by the Degree of Giving

Before you become elderly; learn how to care, respect, and love elder-ones since you will be that one thereupon and ultimately.