Quotes About Generosity

Happiness comes from loving and giving

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

But the boy had a gift. And it was in the nature of a gift that it be endlessly given.

We spared no expense.

Es gibt Reichtümer, an denen man zugrunde geht, wenn man sie nicht mit anderen teilen kann.

there are certain treasures that kill you if you can't share them with others.

Hay riquezas que lo matan a uno si no puede compartirlas.

Hay riquezas que matan a uno sí no puede compartirlas

Ba?kalar?yla payla??lmayan zenginlikler insan? mahvediyordu.

Life is not about hoarding wealth but about spreading it around. God can act to see to it that the creation is nourished, but he uses us humans to see to it that our fellow humans have their needs met. We live in a world where the poor are daily reminders that we too have an obligation to meet, not only to ourselves but also to one another. In order to do this we, like Jesus, need to eschew three things: comfort, safety and security.

stinginess was contagious and so was generosity, and since behaving generously made you happier than behaving stingily, you should avoid stingy people and spend your time only with generous ones.

Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she perceived that her children were not sufficiently grateful, she could make something of that, too.

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy.

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

When I am in Calcutta, for instance, I often charge nothing for singing for debutant directors and small producers who cannot afford to pay me.

You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

I have love in my heart, and I'm kind to people every single day of my life.

I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

I am grateful to Rahman sir. There is no way I can repay the graces he has extended to me by making me sing his compositions.