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Quotes About Generosity

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.
~ David Levithan
Today, and everyday, I give that which I want to receive.
~ Deepak Chopra
The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.
~ Deepak Chopra
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.
~ Desmond Tutu
I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
~ Donald Miller
I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.
~ Frank Grillo
It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
~ Frederick Lenz
Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.
~ Frederick Lenz
Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.
~ Frederick Lenz
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity's crisis is, it seems, its inability to appreciate gifts freely given.
~ Steven Erikson
What is given away for free comes back wounded. Value is not always shared and some hands are rougher than others.
~ Steven Erikson
Kruppe is generous enough this morning to disregard dubious observation regarding his eating habits and the habits of his orifices.
~ Steven Erikson
Nunca te muestres demasiado generoso con el conocimiento que posees. Las palabras son como monedas: merece la pena ahorrarlas.
~ Steven Erikson
What is given away for free comes back wounded.
~ Steven Erikson
Us soldiers only got one kind of coin worth anything, and it's called respect. And we hoard it, we hide it away, and there ain't nobody who'd call us generous. Easy spenders we're not. But there's something feels even worse than having to give up a coin – it's when somebody steps up and tosses one back at us.
~ Steven Erikson
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
~ Steven Pressfield
Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.
~ Steven Spielberg
When I was little my grandfather one Christmas gave me a box of broken glass. He gave my brother a box of Band-Aids, and said, "You two share."
~ Steven Wright
I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?
~ Steven Wright
Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.
~ Stevie Wonder
The most beautiful hara do not have to be cruel or mean or jealous. It is in them to be courteous and kind. Why be otherwise when the world has been so kind to them?
~ Storm Constantine
Blue is the colour of strong passion and creativity, while green associated with the heart is seen as representative of generosity and kindness.
~ Storm Constantine
Don't question my generosity. Such gifts should be accepted without argument.
~ Storm Constantine