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Source: The Garden of Prayer

Giving Rich Generosity Generosity And Giving

“We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.”

People Needs Helping Responsibility Capacity Rewards Generosity

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

“There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.”

Giving Generosity Receiving Gentleness

Author:Freya Stark

“Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.”

Important Class Awareness Policy Generosity Foreign Policy Upper Class Lower Class

Author:Michael Parenti

“Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.”

Way May Beautiful Beauty Virtue Divine Goodness Appreciation Generosity Innocence Traits Modesty Heroism Cultivating Candor

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.”

“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.”

Mind Letting Go Expectations Praise Rewards Inner Peace Generosity

Author:Ajahn Chah

“Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.”

Giving Heart Persons Generosity Righteousness Inseparable

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.”

Stills Poverty Prosperity Generosity

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.”

May Mean Persons Gains Generosity Generous Generous Person

Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.”

Definitions Generosity Disinterested

Book:The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life--Tenth Anniversary Edition

Source: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life--Tenth Anniversary Edition

“Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.”

Feels Dying Sick Feel Good Generosity Kitchen Organized Soup Billboards Soup Kitchens Sick And Dying

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.”

Train Generosity

Book:The edge of surrealism: a Roger Caillois reader

Source: The edge of surrealism: a Roger Caillois reader

“Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.”

Giving Spiritual Realizing Essentials Generosity Giver

Author:Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.”

World Mankind Mortals Generosity Selfless Selfless Service Service To Mankind

Author:Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.”

Moral Selfish Generosity Immoral Unselfish

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”

Littles Hard Hard Work Promise Rewards Bitter Generosity I Have Learned Bitter Experience

Book:In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition

Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition

“Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.”

People Knows Helping Faces Great Things Generosity Helping People

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.”

Important Passion Energy Wealth Materials Commitment Generosity Our Time Our Love Time And Energy Material Wealth

Author:William E. Simon

“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”

Fall Music Silent Generosity Fall Into Place Things Fall Into Place

Author:Rumi

“Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.”

Literature Alive Essence Charity Generosity Selfishness Transcendentalism Posthumous

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.”

Men Should Trying May Whole Helping Able Dies Born Challenges Honor Generosity Good Man

Author:Anton Myrer

“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”

“I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.”

Thinking Giving Jobs Projects Generosity Generous

Author:Elena Anaya

“The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”

Literature Consciousness Quality Known Power Sea Inequality Generosity Endurance Display Faithfulness Irresponsible Manly

Book:The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea

“Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”

People Form Quiet Spring Argument Curiosity Generosity Willingness Serenity Cheerful

Author:Alistair Cooke

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”

Source: Law and Order

“Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.”

“Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer.”

Eye Father Emotional Son Brother Source Lovers Aspect Endure Admire Generosity Tenderness Gifted Masculinity Vocabulary Newcomers

Author:Robin Becker

“I play in a position that demands hard work and generosity and little glamour, but I like it. It’s my job and I like it. I would rather intercept and steal 10 balls than shoot. That’s what I’m here for, to make everyone else’s jobs easier.”

Littles Hard Play Jobs Easy Player Position Football Hard Work Easier Demand Balls Stealing Generosity Glamour Footballer Great Job Midfielders

Author:Sergio Busquets

“If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of the anger of the Iranian nation will be extremely burning and devastating.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Nations Fire Burning Generosity Iranian Misuse

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.”

Love Soul Pain Certain Pleasure Generosity Generous Doubtful Bane

Author:George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

“When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of society. Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four cardinal principles of society. I believe that morality, compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force.”

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.”

Men Giving Secret Mistake Charity Vanity Generosity Secret Service

Author:Norm MacDonald

“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”

Ifs World Whole Realizing Roles Generosity Concerts Violin Generosity And Kindness Kindness Generosity Generosity And Giving Your Generosity Generosity Of Spirit Live Concerts Generosity Of Others

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.”

Important Christian Practice Possession Christian Inspirational Lovely Generosity Attributes

Author:Michael Wright

“Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.”

Joy Women Our Lives Style Addiction Obsession Generosity Deception Exploitation Egotism Spontaneity Eros Life Style Thanatos

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.”

Heart Eye Law Humanity Winning Process Community Impossible Conscience Blind Generosity Appeals Bitterness Survivor Brutality Destroyers Eye For An Eye We Will Win

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.”

Seems Interest Powerful Democracy Ambition Gains Election Generosity Accountability Despise Cynical Recalls Don't Trust Great Ones

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”

Ifs Thinking Life Mind Looks Littles Age Jobs Sex Old Age Saving Generosity Resumes Buffets Saving Up

Author:Warren Buffett

“Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.”

Men Silence Kindness Angry Ill Buddhist Generosity Liars Misers Generosity And Kindness Kindness Generosity Angry Man Silence Love

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.”

Goodness Overcoming Angry Buddhist Generosity Wicked Liars Misers

Author:Gautama Buddha

“"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.”

Has Beens Justice Rights Honesty Civilization Social Justice Generosity Reverence Thrust Reservations Truth Honesty Lakota

Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.”

People Mean Littles Ends Use Would Be Winning Lost Darkness Greater Building Ego Treats Army Greed Riches Occasions Generosity Empires Boots Collecting New Friends

Author:Cyrus the Great

“With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.”

Inspiration Inspiring Wise Overcoming Buddhist Generosity Deceit Gentleness Meanness Wise Buddhist Dhammapada Inspirational Buddhist Spiritual Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.”

Humans Action Form Kindness Morality Generosity Human Actions

Author:Madame de Stael

“Generosity should never exceed ability.”

Should Ability Generosity Exceed

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases”

Wisdom Gratitude Increase Connected Cease Generosity Servant Islamic Linked

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way. The generosity of earlier generations of donors made it possible for me to attend Princeton as a young student from Hong Kong, and I have always wanted to do all I could to assure that students in the future.. from the United States and around the world.. will have the same kinds of opportunities I had to learn from faculty members who are leaders in their fields at a university that remains second to none in its commitment to teaching.”

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