Quotes About Generosity

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Kindness is the beaded belt that binds all together. Expect kindness. Whatever you give out will be returned

And there it is, my greatest challenge: to face the uncertainty of each day, trusting that there will be enough—enough to meet our needs and enough to give away.

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

i'm out to make difference in the world, to lead the way by giving much and giving often.

Little is much, If love abides

Our gifts are not from God to us, but from God through us to the world.

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

When I offer hospitality, something amazing happens--so much more than I have anything to do with. An exchange takes place. Our guests bring who they are with them and enlarge our lives in their offerings.

But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a third-world country and take care of orphans' kind of girl, you know?

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Seeing herself do this, Elise realizes she always knew she would give the fruit away, at this exact moment, to that girl, with this exact feeling in her heart.

Don't shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.

The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me.

in a happy home Mother seems to have enough to provide for everyone without resentment. She seems to enjoy giving! (This may be a shock for those whose experience has been quite different.)

The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.

It could be said that he didn't make time to enter prayer. Rather, he made time for the sake of others to come out of it.

It was funny how he felt more and more generous toward Fabyan by the year. You get older and want to connect to the people who understand. You try to speak with the young and find that something is wrong with your ears. They use their own slang, their own code, and you start to feel nostalgic about your former enemies, who at least shared the same intense moment on earth and spoke words you could understand

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

That one's not for Mommy or Daddy. Anya says she wants you to have it.

se ahonda en la anomalía, en lo repugnante y mezquino como si nuestra norma fuese la del respeto y la generosidad y la rectitud y hubiese que analizar microscópicamente cuanto se sale de ella: como si la mala fe y la tradición, la malquerencia y la voluntad de daño no formaran parte de esa norma y fueran cosas excepcionales, y merecieran por ello todos nuestros desvelos y nuestra máxima atención. Y no es así.

No hay que prestar más dinero del que uno estaría dispuesto a regalarle a quien le asesta el sablazo.

No podemos aceptar el crédito por las cosas buenas y generosas que hacemos mientras estamos bajo la influencia de «la obsesión». Nos empuja y nos lleva una fuerza instintiva que va más allá de nuestros patrones de comportamiento normal. No obstante, si una vez que volvemos al mundo real de la decisión humana, optamos por ser amables y generosos, eso es amor verdadero.

If you so sparingly, look for sparingly results.