Quotes About Generosity

If you miss love in your life, start spreading it and you'll be surrounded with it. Love grows both ways, by spreading and by achieving.

When we practice loving, kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit.

All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with.

If we all just lend a hand we can each lift a heart.

Some of us do so much to make others happy. Sad thing is, some of us dont even know someone that would do the same for us.

Love the world, in an ever widening circle of kindness, and keep loving until the day when love conquers all hatred and no one and no thing is excluded from loves tender embrace.

You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

We live in a world that is alive and generous and in need of care. Strangely, paradoxically, it is in serving and singing and telling our stories to one another that we discover the homecoming we've been longing for has been here, among and within us, along.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

How I wish I could give away pieces of this day like loaves of warm bread. The

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All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. —Shantideva, ninth-century Indian mystic

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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." — THE BUDDHA

the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego—your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous—large souled. —Sam Keen, philosopher

Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

There is a light over every person, and when two souls meet, their lights come together, and a single light emerges from them to feel the universal generation as a sea, and oneself as a wave in it.

Life is too short to do anything for one's self that one can pay others to do for one" W Somerset Maugham, British novelist

It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.