Quotes About Generosity

I believe everybody in the world should try to help somebody else. Let's say half the people in the world are successful. If they help the other half, hey, you've got no problem.

To whom much has been given, much is expected

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

Los cumplidos son donaciones de prosperidad.

When your heart is full of love for yourself, then you have so much to share with others.

is even better to accept the compliment and return it so the giver feels as though he or she has received a gift. It is a way of keeping the flow of good going. Rejoice in the abundance

When someone shoots at us, we return fire," said Jean-Guy. Now Jacques did nod. "But it's equally important that when someone is kind to us, we return that as well,

the most devastating thing Finney could have said. Not that Peter was hated by his father. But that he'd been loved all along. He'd interpreted kindness as cruelty, generosity as meanness, support as tethers. How horrible to have been offered love, and to have chosen hate instead. He'd turned heaven into hell.

Kindness beats cruelty.

Though dour and childless himself, the grocer was unfailingly kind and patient with children. As though instead of having none, he had them all.

And she now knew the miracle wasn't the banana, it was the hand that offered the banana.

That's what I believe," said Ruth. "Peter didn't. Here was a man who was given everything. Talent, love, a peaceful place to live and create. And all he had to do was appreciate it." "And if he didn't?" "He would remain stone. And the deities would turn on him. They do, you know. They're generous, but they demand gratitude.

who would want to kill kindness.

Invite them back if you'd like," she called after him. "There's plenty." She was four courses upset and considering an amuse-bouche.

If we thought of life as a gift, we might not demand nearly as much from it. And if we lived more graciously, giving of ourselves more freely to the well-being of others, many of our personal concerns would disappear, and life would become easier for all.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

To do something however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.

I smoked while they compared booty. Things they took … nail polish, perfume, toilet paper. Things they were given … one-earrings, twenty hangers, torn bras. (Advice to cleaning women: Take everything that your lady gives you and say Thank you. You can leave it on the bus, in the crack.)

Creating music implies the desire to give.