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“Generosity makes at least two people feel good.”

People Feels Two Feel Good Generosity

Author:Karan Casey

“You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.”

“Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.”

Thinking Men Self Half Imagine Talent Needed Easier Smart Add Faults Sorry Ill Witty Clever Generosity Satire Speakers Corn Malice Conceit Being Smart Satirical I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:James Sharp

“A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.”

Men Affection Generosity Generous His Love Love And Affection

Book:Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve

Source: Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve

“For it is in giving that we receive.”

Giving Greatness Catholic Saint Helping Others Christmas Generosity

Book:St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers

Source: St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”

Life Action Acting Hard Work Return Generosity Generous Evident Reap

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.”

Needs Ideas Talent Needed Ears Harmony Musical Delight Appreciation Generosity No Idea Companion Discord

Book:Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

Source: Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household

“Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.”

Problem Happens Culture Customers Speed Generosity Remembered Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”

Men Soul Pain Causes Greatness Offers Activity Adversity Shining Endure Generosity Bliss Crush Misfortunes Reverse Nevertheless Mars Severe Nobility Hindrance Owing Insensibility

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.”

Men War Belief Lines Cold Generosity Cold War Sinking Life Line

Author:Ernest Bevin

“Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.”

Giving Children Lasts Life Is Our Children Tricks Generosity Your Children Village Plates Neighbour Biscuits Extended Family

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.”

“Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?”

Giving Mean Self Action Hate Brain Activity Mountain Greed Generosity Explanation Streams Soar

Book:Krishnamurti's Notebook

Source: Krishnamurti's Notebook

“Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.”

Way Self Subjects Projects Best Way Generosity Openness Schemes Cultivating

Book:Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

Source: Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

“Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.”

Thinking Generosity Being Free Bounty

Book:Poems and Plays

Source: Poems and Plays

“O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!”

World Giving Gone Breaths Generosity

Book:Hamlet. Timon of Athens

Source: Hamlet. Timon of Athens

“To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.”

Bird Generosity Generous Bullets Disposition Bolts Cannons

Book:Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.”

Giving Hands Fit Fairs Praise Generosity These Days Heresy Foul

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare

“Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.”

Different Turns Opportunity Seeing Machines Generosity Platforms Atm Atm Machines

Author:Seth Godin

“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.”

“True generosity means accepting ingratitude.”

Mean Accepting Generosity Ingratitude True Generosity

Author:Coco Chanel

“I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.”

Lines Ambition Projects Admire Generosity

Author:Robert Fagles

“We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.”

Needs Shows Names Cities Compassion Arms Angel Red Hollywood Wings Spread Generosity Carpet Red Carpet Open Arms City Of Angels

Author:Maria Shriver

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

Ifs Trying One Thing Generosity If I Could

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.”

Ifs Want Soul Conquer Generosity Meekness

Author:Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

“Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.”

Source: Nobody Here But Us Chickens

“Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.”

People Men World Want Doe Earth Spirit Humanity Achieve Honest This World Oneself Deny Great Things Generosity Being Honest Drowning Rise Above Banality

Author:Irving Stone

“The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and through the music, we share a bond even if we may never have met. As long as there is a single person who may find something they are looking for or a feeling they need in my music, I will continue to write for that person”

People Ifs Needs Writing May Persons Long Feelings Spirit Energy Share Inspire Mets Generosity Single Person Generosity Of Spirit

Author:Emma Hewitt

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.”

Trying Enough Kindness Treats Generosity Generosity And Kindness

Author:Maya Angelou

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.”

World Different Facts Life Is Hours Pride Genuine Generosity Different Things Benevolence Other Worlds Liberality

Author:Martial

“Great spenders are bad lenders.”

Money Generosity Lenders

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.”

Ocean Forests Generosity Generous Refuge Asylums Misanthropy Narrow-minded Misanthrope Hammocks

Book:Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

Source: Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile

“It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.”

“I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.”

Knows Should Art Earth Form Church Results Wonder Know How Library University Theatre Generosity Parks Wicked Hospitals Museums Philanthropy Millionaire Recreation Public Library

Author:William Lyon Phelps

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

Mind Heart Generosity Magnanimous

Book:Sesame and Lilies, etc

Source: Sesame and Lilies, etc

“Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.”

Thinking Men Way Wells Character Values Common Acting Steps Support Virtue Honest Goodness Charity Generosity Common Life

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.”

Firsts Done Poor Half Drink Empty Generosity Moderation Jars Half Empty Dregs

Author:Hesiod

“Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.”

Men Giving Trying Happiness Friendship Half Friends Singing West Generosity Buying

Book:Out where the West Begins

Source: Out where the West Begins

“What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.”

People Home Stranger Generosity Openness Touching Warmth Offering

Author:Naomie Harris

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

Self Interest Generosity Casting Prudence Self Interest Constraints Casting Off

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!”

Needs Jesus Quality Greater Comfort Empathy Crosses Generosity Divinity Portions Agony

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Generosity is a practical expression of Love.”

Expression Practicals Generosity Expressions Of Love

Author:Gary Inrig

“Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.”

Kind Generosity Wealthy Shyness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.”

Men Littles Generosity Generous Honored

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.”

Giving Able Spiritual Force Quality Practice Source Letting Go Giving Up Spring Awakening Arise Generosity Spiritual Awakening Renounce Cultivation Self Giving

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Every great leader has a generosity gene.”

Leader Generosity Genes Great Leader

Author:Jack Welch

“Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.”

May Beauty Virtue Generosity Innocence Traits Modesty Heroism Candor

Author:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.”