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Quotes About Generosity

Once you're allowed to do that, people who want to get rich can do it by generating wealth instead of stealing it.
~ Paul Graham
That seemed to be the theme in the Deep South: kindness, generosity, a welcome.
~ Paul Theroux
Lines from William Blake's Jerusalem came to mind: He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.
~ Paul Theroux
I saw a stranger yestreen. I put food in the eating place, Drink in the drinking place, Music in the listening place— And the lark in its song sang! 'Often, often, often, often, Comes the Christ in the stranger's guise.
~ Paul Theroux
If we expect compassion, we must be ready to offer compassion.
~ Unknown
Só se dá aquilo que se possui.
~ Pauline Réage
Nadie puede dar lo que no le pertenece.
~ Pauline Réage
Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
~ Paulo Coelho
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
~ Paulo Coelho
This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny
~ Paulo Coelho
When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.
~ Paulo Coelho
Para la mayoría de las personas, la generosidad consiste en sólo dar. Pero recibir es también un acto de amor. Permitir que el otro nos haga feliz también lo hará feliz a él.
~ Paulo Coelho
I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.
~ Paulo Coelho
What is a Gift? A Gift is your way of serving the world.
~ Paulo Coelho
when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.
~ Paulo Coelho
One loves because Love is the Greatest Gift, not because it gives us something in return.
~ Paulo Coelho
Love is also a mysterious thing: the more we share it, the more it multiplies.
~ Paulo Coelho
If God exists, and I truly don't believe he does, he will know that there are limits to human understanding. He was the one who created this confusion in which there is poverty, injustice, greed, and loneliness. He doubtless had the best of intentions, but the results have proved disastrous; if God exists, he will be generous with those creatures who chose to leave this Earth early, and he might even apologize for having made us spend time here.
~ Paulo Coelho
Because, instead of bitterness, you feel enthusiasm. That is the only difference. Apart from that, one must respect the Mystery, and humbly accept that God has a plan for us. A generous plan, which leads us towards His presence, and which justifies these millions of stars, planets, black holes, etc. which we see tonight
~ Paulo Coelho
For most people generosity consists only in giving and yet receiving is also an act of love.allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too
~ Paulo Coelho
Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.
~ Paulo Coelho
kebahagiaan adalah sesuatu yang berlipat ganda ketika dibagi
~ Paulo Coelho
Every atom of her body was touching the air, and the air was generous; it brought with it, from afar, secrets and perfumes to clothe her from head to toe.
~ Paulo Coelho