Quotes About Generosity

Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!" The

give a guest everything and leave him to do as he likes.

with true Yorkshire hospitality: give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes.

Bienvenido a mi morada. Entre libremente, por su propia voluntad, y deje parte de la felicidad que trae

Life can be generous some days. But watch out—the price of living is pain. Same price as loving.

You are happy, he breathed. I will buy you a hundred more.

Most importantly we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.

A generous orthodoxy is like that. It acknowledges that we're all a mess. It sees in our worst failures the possibility of our deepest repentance and God's opening for our most profound healing. It remembers Jesus' parable that wherever God sows good seed, "an enemy" will sow weed seeds. It realizes that you can't pull up the bad without uprooting the good too, and so it refrains from judging. It just rejoices wherever good seed grows.

When receiving an unexpected gift, a wise man does not ask too many questions. Only the foolish person assumes that a gift is simply a gift, and that there are no implied obligations. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, Venport Holdings consolidation memo

When grace is replaced by greed, and generosity is displaced by avarice, there is no limit to the depths of evil that can result.

Honey girl, I don't care what you do as long as you're kind to everyone you meet.

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

churches would aim to take people at every age and ability level and help them become the most loving version of themselves possible. They would help people face the challenges of life--challenges that could make them bitter, self-absorbed, callous, or hateful--with openness, courage, and generosity. (p. 54)

It was out of the dynamic of cosmic celebration that we were created in the first place. We are to become celebration and generosity, burst into self-awareness. What is the human? The human is a space, an opening, where the universe celebrates its existence.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." – Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

We can always find something to give. The joy of giving does not spring from the availability of dispensable resources. True richness is defined not in how much you have but how much you can give! Meaning, fulfillment and happiness come from making a difference and giving happiness to others.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Generosity overpowers greed.

The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving.

Then I ran to her and our relatives laughed. The knots of bystanders were horrified at the loss of her expensive tusk ornaments, but with my hand firmly clasped in hers she reminded them, with her face beaming,'When has it ever been a virtue to be rich in wealth and poor in people?' The relatives nodded. They understood her very well- why have heaven an earth when you have no one to share it with?

Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.

El fanatismo, el temor, la esperanza, el ardiente debate, la oración callada, la generosidad ejemplar, la intolerancia estrecha de miras y la necesidad profunda de nuevas ideas, todo era como una epidemia que recorría febrilmente la superficie del minúsculo planeta Tierra.

Take 2 heaping cups of Patience 1 heart full of Love 2 handfuls of Generosity Sprinkle with Kindness Add plenty of Faith Mix well and spread over a period of a lifetime and serve everybody you meet.