Quotes About Generosity

I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it's the very last piece, but you let him have it.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself. A meal, according to my understanding anyhow, is a communal event, bringing together family members, neighbors, even strangers. At its most ordinary, it involves hospitality, giving, receiving, and gratitude.

Every day you have less reason Not to give yourself away. - 1993 I

Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot

Beyond all history that he knows, Where trees like great saints stand in time, Eternal in their patience. Loss Has rectified the songs that come Into this columned room, and he Only in silence, nothing in hand Comes here. A generosity Is here by which the fallen stand.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

I hope Mr. Hartright will pay me no compliments,' said Miss Fairlie, as we all left the summer-house. 'May I venture to inquire why you express that hope?' I asked. 'Because I shall believe all that you say to me,' she answered, simply. In those few words she unconsciously gave me the key to her whole character; to that generous trust in others which, in her nature, grew innocently out of the sense of her own truth. I only knew it intuitively then. I know it by experience now.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it!

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.