Quotes About Generosity

Optime autem societas hominum conjunctioque servabitur, si, ut quisque erit conjunctissimus, ita in eum benignitatis plurimum conferetur. (...) Homo, qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat, facit Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit.

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows them to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.

In the moment just before giving, I am loved.

Thank you for bringing me this fish. Thank you means: Thank you means you did something good for me. Or something you thought was good. And that good thing was giving me a fish. So that made me happy, but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means. No, you don't need to give me another fish. I am happy enough for now.

I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw. I dole them out equally, these offerings, these atonements, into the waiting hands of my friends. In the moment just before giving, I am loved.

in this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees.

If you are generous with your heart, you have no idea of the depth & breadth of love's reach.

Hospitality has a hidden power that is difficult to explain but even harder to deny.

In a desire to help, I cleaned and tossed the leftovers for the first few days. Then I became curious, for it seemed as if the bread had been left purposely to linger on the tables. "Because it's holy," Mama Vered explained. "We offer it to the poor, and if they do not take it, we feed the birds and fish, but we never throw bread away.

money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.

beautiful as a woman is beautiful who is so sure of her charm that she can be generous and gracious to all.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.

Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.

I LOVE my job. Having a front row seat to watch lives change because of others generosity is amazing! So thankful.

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.