Quotes About Generosity

We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness.

Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share.

Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.

Love truly is not a finite emotion. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.

luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.

Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need

We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.

Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it. Just as parents could love a newborn instantly without diminishing their love for each other, so now could Ambra feel affection for two different men. Love truly is not a finite emotion, she realized. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.

Lo que hacemos sólo para nosotros muere con nosotros; lo que hacemos para los demás y para el mundo permanece y es inmortal.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL

Love truly is not a finite emotion, she realized. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.

We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.

I gave my clothes away. How could I think about clothes when the poor people of Florida don't even have a place to live?

We cannot always do great things in life, but we can do small things with great love.

I have saved your life on no other terms than I would be glad to be saved myself: and it may, one time or other, be my lot to be taken up in the same condition. Besides, said he, when I carry you to the Brazils, so great a way from your own country, if I should take from you what you have, you will be starved there, and then I only take away that life I have given.

Aber, sprach sie noch immer lächelnd, dieser Verdienst kann dir nicht Nahrung und Kleider schaffen, wer wird denn dem kleinen Fräulein die Kleider kaufen?

He knew as well the stories of generosity and courage and self-sacrifice: the clergy who encouraged and comforted all who came – including the outcast Catholics, Jews, and Dissenters; the doctors who tended the poor without fees; the officials working quickly to calm panic and stave off disaster; the watchmen, the deadcart drivers, the 'buryers' at the pits; the parents and children and servants and friends who encouraged, comforted, tended, worked, saved, and mourned.

Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?

Giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly. Righteous indignation is like candy when you're starving. It feels good, but it doesn't sustain you very long.

This is what it means to serve: improving another's life and, in turn, improving the world.

Love makes the world go round, the hit songs collectively tell us, and the world is full of people you don't know and might as well be nice to because they won't leave.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.