Quotes About Generosity

There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too!

It's amazing what a little money can do when it's spent on the right reason.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

Papa had some amazing qualities. He was a very spiritual person. He was very passionate about his work. He was a completely self-made man. At the same time, his generosity and kindness were two aspects of him that really defined his personality.

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

Spirituality, for me, is acquiring and giving happiness without hurting anyone.

I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.

I'll admit, I like to be the aunt who spoils my nephews rotten.

I like to give my kids the life I didn't have - they go to an excellent school; they have nice clothes, money for shopping. I'm quite generous with them, but they have fantastic manners - they're not spoilt.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.

A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.

'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.

Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.