Quotes About Generosity

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

POLITICAL VALUES, FEELINGS ABOUT not living in an ostentatious way, about commitment to other people, and our own commitments. We both had different specific commitments, but strong commitments in feeling that we owed something back, that our lives were going pretty well and we owed something back, not only of resources, but of time. We both loved to travel, and we had a sense of adventure. We liked the same people, and I think that's important. Very seldom did we disagree about friends.

Life isn't fair. I believe it is important to have arms outstretched, holding one hand up to the person who is giving you a lift up, and one hand down, giving someone else a helping hand up.

When you wake up in the morning, think, "What can I do to make her day or his day just a little happier?

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

People who insist on calculating in detail exactly who had what when it comes to dividing up the bill are despised, not just because they are miserly, but because such discussions involve a prolonged breach of the money-talk taboo.

She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.

Toddlers just 14 months old will help others by handing them out-of-reach objects, and children as young as three will share their treats with others.

Drawing on a wide array of psychological research, the New Economics Foundation has distilled the findings down to five simple acts that are proven to promote well-being: connecting to the people around us, being active in our bodies, taking notice of the world, learning new skills, and giving to others.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love...

Reverend Green grows sad in his eyes. "And yet, consider how Jesus would've treated the likes of Sarah Good," he remarks. "He'd have fed her without thought, and washed her feet with his own hands. The true Christian doesn't hesitate to make himself humble.

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

You appear infinitely generous, but you are a woman of infinite passion, in hate as well as love.

What is the use of money if one cannot use it to make one's friends comfortable?

The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.

They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men who were no longer shockable. I shut my eyes; I had already seen far too much and I wanted to be able to forget eventually. This thing, this being, screamed in a corner like a maniac. The revulsion that turned our stomachs told us that it would be an act of generosity, a fraternal act, to finish him off.

No muestres compasión por nadie, aunque la sientas. Haz favores sin afectaros. Si vieran emoción e interés en tu rostro cuando les das limosna se abalanzarían sobre ti y desnudo te dejarían. Como a los canes, a los hombres no debe dárseles el alimento sino arrojársele.

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?" "Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate." "But Daddy killed people, didn't he?" "Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex.

Marx's life had been filled with such abundance that he was one of those people who found it natural to care for those around him.

But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.

Can't something be both?" Said said. "Friendship is friendship, and charity is charity." Freda said. "....But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.