Quotes About Generosity

I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.

Don't talk nonsense," Esmé said crossly. "If we give money to poor people, then they won't be poor anymore.

i want to be friends with people who are honest and interesting, generous but not ridiculous, thoughtful but who don't have irritating voices

When a city or a town sets aside a piece of land for public relaxation, it is a sign that someone is thinking about the happiness of someone else

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define a good day not in terms of one in which all things were made right and comfortable for me but rather, as a day in which I have been able to make another's day more loving and special for them. We must treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it but because we grow best in thoughtfulness.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for eternity.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

He sat there, sighing and moaning and ruminating thusly: "Oh, if only the Holy One, blessed be His name, would give me ten thousand dollars, I promise I would give a thousand to the poor. Halevay! … And if the Holy One doesn't trust me, He can deduct the thousand in advance and just give me the balance.

A woman, feeling sorry for a beggar who had come to her door, invited him in and offered him food. On the table was a pile of dark bread—and a few slices of challah. The shnorrer (beggar) promptly fell upon the challah. "There's black bread, too," the woman hinted. "I prefer challah." "But challah is much more expensive!" "Lady," said the beggar, "it's worth it." That, I think, is chutzpa.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.

Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty through Christ our Lord, amen," the sweet old man said. "Now pass the gravy!

Tithing is a way to right the ship quickly. Instead of spending every dime, deny yourself a little and save ten percent of your income one month. Then just wait for an intuition of whom to give it to. You'll get one. Someone who needs an angel will cross your path, and you'll get the thrill of having the means to be of service. And again, it will just accelerate the flow of help coming back to you. You'll get more opportunities to be successful.

Thank you, Pig Keeper, Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.

Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish.

I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That's my responsibility as being part of this planet.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.