Quotes About Generosity

Not so, Tarek. The highest love is given without thought of cost or reward—anything less is not love.

Give it to Ron's brother

2. It serves and inspires other beings and does not take from them or exploit them

The great physician, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer explained, "The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

Altruism, generosity, solidarity and civic spirit are not like commodities that are depleted with use. They are more like muscles that develop and grow stronger with exercise. One of the defects of a market-driven society is that it lets these virtues languish. To renew our public life we need to exercise them more strenuously.

It points beyond the tyranny of merit toward a less rancorous, more generous public life.

More often than not, it was the hand of the needy and uncertain that extended the olive branch. History had shown the truth of that over and over again.

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

When we make the world a better place, the world makes us better people.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

Everyone who enters the world comes in with hidden gold, it's called your natural gifts. The job of a person is to find the hidden gold and give it. It turns out that when you give it you get more than when you hold on to it, that's the economy of the soul.

The specific way that you spend on other people isn't nearly as important as the fact that you spend on other people.

I was able to give them a little candy and a little hope, but they were able to fill me up with so much more.

Only when you bring value to others, will you bring value to yourself.

This economic arrangement worked only because their lives were so oriented toward the group that they didn't even consider their possessions their own but "had everything in common" (Acts 4: 32 ESV). While this probably didn't mean a one-time divestment of every single piece of individual property into a common fund, it absolutely meant people sold land and houses to share with the group.

How did the Barnharts decide how much was enough? Our principle is that the Army cook shouldn't eat a whole lot better than the troops. Those of us who're in a position to generate wealth aren't entitled to a different lifestyle than the rest of the body, the rest of the troops. We may need different tools, just like that cook, but our lives shouldn't be so different.

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.

Give love in doses and hope for uselessness.

There's not much point to being alive if you don't do what you can to make life better for someone else, is there?

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don't have to do that.

Historically, such human beings have existed. Human beings who have worked - worked hard - all their lives with no motive other than love and devotion, who have literally given their lives for others, out of love and devotion; human beings who have no sense of having made any sacrifice, who cannot imagine any way of life other than giving their lives for others, out of love and devotion. In general, such human beings are generally women.

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AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.