Quotes About Generosity

Ce poate fi mai deprimant decât faptul c? ultimul avorton posed? facultatea de a da via??, de-a "aduce pe lume"? Cum s? nu te cuprind? spaima sau sila când te gândeÅŸti la miracolul ce face din primul venit un demiurg pe puncte? Ceea ce trebuia sa fie un dar la fel de excepÅ£ional ca ÅŸi geniul a fost distribuit tuturora de-a valma: generozitate de spe?? joas? ce descalific? pe vecie natura.

If we consider closely our so-called generous actions, there is none which, from some aspect, is not blameworthy an even harmful, so that we come to regret having performed it—so that we must choose, finally, between abstention and remorse.

With all due respect to Tertullian, the soul is naturally pagan. Any god at all, when he answers to our immediate needs, represents for us an increase of vitality, a stimulus, which is not the case if he is imposed upon us or if he corresponds to no necessity. Paganism's mistake was to have accepted and accumulated too many of them: it died of generosity and excess of understanding—it died from a lack of instinct.

Naiveté, optimism, generosity—we encounter them among botanists, specialists in the pure sciences, explorers, never among politicians, historians, or priests.

Today's Wisdom: Be it health or be it leisure, Be it skill we have to give, Still in spending it for others Christians only really live. Not in having or receiving, But in giving, there is bliss; He who has no other pleasure Ever may rejoice in this. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Come and share a pot of tea, my home is warm and my friendship's free.

When we lift someone else's load, we add color not only to our lives but to the lives of others as well.

Gracious living is felt whether it is created in small or big ways.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

God gave a Loaf to every Bird—But just a Crumb—to Me—

Sweetness which comes from benefiting someone is more delolicious than honey and butter.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Esistono poi degli individui nati mercenari che non fanno alcun bene agli amici o ai parenti per il fatto che è dovuto; mentre dal fare un piacere a sconosciuti, traggono un pizzico d'amor proprio: più il cerchio dei loro affetti è vicino, meno amano; più si allarga, più diventano premurosi.

It always pays to be generous with that which costs you nothing.

We can protect life, practice generosity, behave responsibly, and consume mindfully.

You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius

You must do something to make the world more beautiful.

The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.

For in the giving she received. It was what their love was all about.