Quotes on Generosity

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

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.

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

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion...Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.