Quotes About Generosity

when one person gives

Success. Power. But you know, it's not winning if it comes at the expense of someone else. Success should come from giving not taking.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson. As

Smiles are free. You can never give away too many.

Smiles are free. You can never give away too many. Seven

That's what love does. It doesn't stop to consider the cost. It just...acts. Puts itself out there.

Kindness is always motivated by something nobler than just a desire to be kind.

I want you to know that love is not a person. It is not of this earth at all. It wasn't until now that I realized I had mistakenly come to believe that love came from a place inside me and therefore had to protect that place. It comes from heaven, Eleanor. It is given to us not to hold on to or hide from, but to give away.

Thistle House is for people who love and care for one another. We respect one another in this house, Emmeline. We carry one another's burdens. We weep for one another and we laugh with one another. We hold one another by the hand when the lights go out and when the way seems hopeless. We work together and we share the table together and we pray together. No matter how old we are or what we are called.

They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.

Why would an old couple in San Francisco give to the Los Angeles Library to save the books?" one note read. "Well, [my] father collapsed and died in the LA Public Library on July 17, 1952. Heart Attack or stroke. I never found out which. Good luck with your campaign.

When I think my actions will benefit others and not just myself, I find courage where I thought I had none. Holding others in my heart brings an uplifted quality to my actions, and I feel that I am being wise.

Since you, O my Jesus, have been so liberal with your graces toward me and have deigned to give your Blood and your life for me, I am sorry for having acted with so little generosity toward you, who are worthy of all honor and all love. But, O my Jesus, you know my weakness; help me with your powerful grace. In you I confide, O Immaculate Virgin Mary, help me to overcome myself and to become a saint. Amen.

generosity as a means of controlling someone is no gift at all. It's a curse.

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. "Here." I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

We don't charge for tickets, because sometimes hungry people need music the most. But we get hungry, too.

No has hecho daño a nadie..., les has dado una oportunidad. Sólo tienen que ser lo suficientemente valientes para aprovecharla.

Want a sugar cube?

It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me. But I dismissed this. It must have been an accident. Why would he have done it? He didn't even know me. Still, just throwing me the bread was an enormous kindness that would have surely resulted in a beating if discovered. I couldn't explain his actions.

magnanimousness.

Want a sugar cube?" he says, offering his hand, which is piled high. "They're supposed to be for the horses, but

it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back.

Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.