Quotes About Generosity

Indians expect to be force-fed when they visit other homes, and they relish the attention. In fact, Indians of my grandmother's generation think it rude and walk away in a huff if the host doesn't entreat them to eat, eat, and eat some more.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting.

Dogen-zenji said, "To give is nonattachment." That is, just not to attach to anything is to give.

Even love comes with its own season.. and relationships with their own kismets.They start through us, and then love loves through us. And when the give-and-take between two individuals is over, the relationship fades. Like a fruit that must fall from the bough if it is to carry its life into its next avatar. There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.

There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.

at Prusianum, as the other (estate) is called, (the young) Tonantius and his brothers turned out of their beds for us because we could not be always dragging our gear about: they are surely the elect among the nobles of our own age

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

The more loving we can be, the more powerful we become.

I chose to help people, because there'd been no-one there to help me when I needed it.

if you're wise, you'll drop the odd coin in a cap, here and there. Because karma has teeth, all it takes is one really bad day, and we can all fall off the edge.

Best thing about being King; you get lots of pressies.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering.

Once I fell asleep on the grass and Michel filled my pockets with flowers. Today I am fifteen and I'm taking stock of my life. Even though I want to go to university and eventually buy Michel a red convertible, when I think of those Sundays in the Jardin des Plantes, I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best I can do in life.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best I can do in life.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

"with love you can give much and lose nothing." sm

Service is about putting the next person first."

Be grateful for each day that your Lord has given you by doing great to the world.