Quotes About Generosity

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

I think an artist will have to know that the reward is in the giving. That's where it's at: it's called "unconditional love".

Jack Daniels. Damn, she broke out the good stuff for him.

Fursey was now eating—and drinking, always drinking—at Mulstan's expense, not her uncle's. The gift of kings, her mother said: to make others pay.

Men, I have found, are more generous when their bellies are full.

Mead was the key to good fellowship. A better gift, sometimes, than gold.

Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

The high point of every meal was never the food itself, he taught us, but always the act of sharing it.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

Tchítchikov deu a ela uma moedinha de cobre, e a menina foi caminhado para casa, bem contente por ter andando na boleira da caleche.

We can only share what we have at hand already.

Virtue beameth from a generous spirit as light from the moon, or as brilliancy from Jupiter.

Give, they told the world, don't take. They knew what we didn't. That it is impossible to be useful and sad.

Deep down, it seemed, many Americans were convinced that a gain for others was a loss for themselves.

We commit to the daily disciplined practices of meditation, yoga, exercise, wise actions, kindness, forgiveness, generosity, compassion, appreciation, and moment-to-moment mindfulness of feelings, emotions, thoughts, and sensations. We are developing the skillful means of knowing how to apply the appropriate meditation or action to the given circumstance.

No one achieves wealth and power exclusively through his or her own efforts. You can pull yourself up by your bootstraps, but someone gave you the boots.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The generous and bold have the best lives.

To love is to wish the others highest good.

Further, Mah?n?ma, the noble disciple contemplates his own liberality: "Truly, blessed am I, highly blessed: that among creatures soiled with the defilement of meanness, I am living with a heart free from niggardliness, accessible to beggars, pleased by giving and sharing with others.