Generosity Quotes - Page 13

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.

We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.

I LOVE my job. Having a front row seat to watch lives change because of others generosity is amazing! So thankful.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

I live to feel her fingers move inside of me like this. The bus makes another stop. A fat man climbs aboard, hauling himself up the stairs. I would kill him for one more moment with her fingers inside me. I don’t have to. She gives me my moment for free. He lives because of her generosity. We all live because of her generosity.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.