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Quotes About Generosity

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
~ Therese of Lisieux
The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.
~ Walter Russell
Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.
~ Zac Hanson
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
~ Jon Foreman
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
~ Khalil Gibran
The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?
~ Larry Burkett
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
~ Mark Twain
Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
~ Meher Baba
When all that's left of me is love, Give me away.
~ Merrit Malloy
How much love did you put into what you did?
~ Mother Teresa
Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.
~ Pope Francis
Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Love is not about getting - but giving.
~ Henry Van Dyke
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
~ John of the Cross
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Spread your love wherever you go.
~ Mother Teresa
You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
~ Solomon
Let your love flow out on all living things.
~ William Styron
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
~ Zig Ziglar
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Kindness and love open the doors to one's soul.
~ Anthony D. Williams
The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.
~ Jean Houston