Quotes on Generosity

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.