Quotes About Generosity

Generosity says a great deal about a person's emotional and spiritual development. When it's hard to give, or it feels like ripping away a part of the self, we are still anchored in our attachments or stories we've created about scarcity. If this applies to you, make friends with the part of you that feels resentful or finds it difficult to give.

To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.

Gregory Peck was one of those few great actors of generosity, humor, toughness and spirit. From our fight scene in The Big Country (1958) to his willingness to stand up for what he believed personally, Gregory Peck faced life's challenges with great vigor and courage.

A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

I admire a woman like T.R. "Tina" Threston. When nearly everyone else asks what a charity can do for them, she asks what she can do for a charity. That, my friends, is a rare woman indeed!

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Abundance comes not from amassing, but rather from appreciating.

I realize it might seem too fast, but I know you are the one for me." He tapped the place over his heart. "In here, I have no doubts. You are a good woman who values the wellbeing of her family over her own comfort. I've witnessed your generous heart with your cousin, and I know about your sacrifice in marrying Hadley.

We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. It's the reason... we have to get burned before we understand the power of fire; the reason our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Our minds are small, but our hearts are big.

Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.

You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and by allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.

When you feel terrible because someone has gotten something you want, you force yourself to remember how very much you have been given. You remember that there is plenty for all of us. You remember that someone else's success has absolutely no bearing on your own.

I've given you everything", she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes, " I agreed. She had, it was true. She did. She did. She did. She's come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.

She was kindhearted and forgiving, generous and naïve.

You must love in order to be loved. You must be inclusive in order to feel yourself among the included. You must give in order to receive.

But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too

Anything else? To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. This is good advice for anyone at any age, but particularly for those in their twenties.

Also, because it's harder to be magnanimous when you're in your twenties, I think, and so that's why I'd like to remind you of it.