Quotes About Generosity

We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

manifestations of paranoia. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

The steamy, noisy kitchen was the safest place in the world, it seemed to him. Safety had never been anything to think about before; it was something you took for granted, like his mother's endless, effortless, generous food, and the fact that there would always be hot plates ready to serve it on.

Does the tree say to the sparrow "Get out, you don't belong here?" Does the tree say to the hungry man "This fruit is not for you?" Does the tree test the loyalty of the beasts before it allows them into the shade?

The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time, they're mocked and scorned for their pains.

I'm the only one who gives her a whole can of tuna for lunch, and I'm not talking dreck, either. I'm talking Chicken of the Sea, Alex.

In every one of us is the total of all we have ever been, the sullen child, the arrogant youth, the suckling babe. Every fear endured in childhood is lodged somewhere in here.' He tapped his temple. 'And every act of heroism or cowardice, generosity or meanness of spirit.

I am going to make too much money today, Mikhail. I will have to give you some of it or my conscience will trouble me-not too much, though. I do not have a very large conscience.

I had a couple of restaurants, nothing too grand. But I'd already worked out – I'm not an idiot – you either run money or else it runs you. If you keep your money … if you're frightened to spend it, you become its prisoner. OK, sure, when you're making it, be as mean as you like. But when you spend it, just give. Give. Show your contempt for it.

The future is a work of prejudice and malice inextricably bound with generosity and hope. Its fate is unalterably out of our control. Insofar as this work is manageable at all, it is carried out now and forever under the terrible anarchy of freedom that God has imposed on his children and will not take back.

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

My friends, I implore you to destroy the seeds of greed inside you. Greed will not help you grow wise and rich. Greed

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

I only have a day to give—so why can't it be a good one? Why can't it be a shared one? Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?

All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person who never gives to charity.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

If you want to be loved,be a loveable. It's a good place to start.

Cuál es la utilidad de ser bueno con un pobre? Preguntó Cicerón.