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• True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

  Suze Orman

  Offering, Strings Attached, Expectations

  "The 8 Qualities of a Successful Life" by Suze Orman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Kindness, Compassion

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• I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

  Paul Newman

  People, Community, Looks

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• Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

  Seth Godin

  Hard Work, Long, Way

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• Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Giving, Trying, Spirit

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• Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Sacrifice, People

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• Let me think about the people I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me, I still love them. I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them - Then let me extend that generosity to myself.

  Ze Frank

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Kindness, Grace

  Martin Luther “Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther”, Augsburg Books

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• Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Giving, Als, Stinginess

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• I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

  Josh Fox

  Motivation, Believe, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity.

  Pierre Gagnaire

  Cuisine, Pleasure, Rigour

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• The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

  Raj Patel

  Opposites, Consumption, Thrift

  Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

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• Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.

  Raj Patel

  People, Losing Yourself, Excellent

  Raj Patel's speech at "21minuti", www.youtube.com. December 14, 2009.

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• If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

  Charlie Haden

  Humility, Quality, Musician

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• It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

  Merle Shain

  Giving, Accepting

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• Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

  Pope Francis

  People, Church, Young

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.

  David Platt

  Needs, Earth, Christ

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• Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Essence, Joy, Poverty

  Chogyam Trungpa (2003). “Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Real, Self

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

  Rumi

  Real, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

  Abraham Maslow

  Honesty, Common Sense, Stupidity

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• GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Noble, Birth

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

  Jacques Chirac

  Determination, Ambition, Imagination

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• The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

  Ellen Key

  Happiness, Children, Mean

  Ellen Key, Mamah Bouton Borthwick (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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