Quotes About Generosity

i tuoi romanzi ... sono sempre rimasti in camera da letto, umilmente, accanto a te; li prendevi in prestito oppure, quando li compravi, li regalavi subito, desiderosa com'eri di passare ad altri il piacere di quelle letture. ... (pagina 78)

It's not easy, you know, to surrender yourself wholeheartedly and generously. Whether the relationship is with God or with another person, there's a great deal of giving-up of self involved in it. I couldn't do it.

Charity is the secret weapon Jesus Christ places in our hands, the only thing that can assure us of victory. The first on to use it will win.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born. )

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.

Noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious.

The river never drinks its own water. The tree never tastes its own fruit. The field never consumes its own harvest. They selflessly strive for the well-being of all those around them. —Mewari proverb, India

Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires.

Det er klart disse unge hadde handlet i god tro, en måtte vel tilgi dem. Skjønt de fleste syntes nok at ungdommer nå til dags var litt vel foretaksomme.

If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.