Quotes About Generosity

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

ALWAYS BE KIND

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Spread the table and contention will cease.

Lo que nace del amor mo es objeto de transacciones

Lo que nace del amor no es objeto de transacciones

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

Mereka yang pernah menolong orang-orang yang kesusahan, menginsafi bahwa memberi lebih baik daripada menerima.

A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

If you want to make someone happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Desear algo no es suficiente. El deseo intrínsecamente debe contener dar de alguna manera, para ceder el paso al fluir mayor.

We take donations in chocolate, pizza or bitcoins.

Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.

So when we do not have much money, we should give it away anyway. It can be exchanged for other currencies that we need more than mere money. When we give, we interact with others and we exchange other currencies. When we give, we form trusting networks and create community. When we give, we start things moving and flowing again, recirculating different currencies through the community.

You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Ah, Peggy, and how should I know? All I do know is that ye'd be feeding all the stray dogs and waifs and tramps in the world if ye had your way.

we know how much we are allowing ourselves to experience the hesed of God based on how much we give it out to others.

Our exceptionalness is not for us but for others. That is the paradox at the heart of who we are. So what makes us different has nothing to do with jingoism and nationalistic chest beating. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have been good. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have longed to help make others great too. That earnest humility and generosity must be attended to.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢