Generosity Quotes - Page 24

• The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Life, Men, Water

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• .. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

  Plato

  Greatness, Opposites, Discipline

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• ...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have differnt stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Children, Believe

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• One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

  Rob Bell

  Inspiring, Profound, Grace

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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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• Love and generosity are the simplest forms of peace.

  Pamela Brooks

  Love, Peace, Form

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• Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer of money, we facilitate love and communication with other humans. It offers us a simple system of providing for and loving and nurturing ourselves, and it is one way of expressing generosity and kindness for the less fortunate.

  Stuart Wilde

  Love, Appreciation, Kindness

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• May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sweet, Agony

  George Eliot (1900). “Armgart: The Spanish Gypsy, and Other Poems”

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• With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

  Rumi

  Taken, Half, Plant

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• All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

  Rumi

  Color, Feelings, Desire

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  We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

  Maria Montessori

  Unity, Together, Path

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Art, Giving, Paraphrase

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers”

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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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• To be here is immense.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Immense

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• When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

  Rachel Simmons

  Kindness, Giving, Silence

  "The Curse of the Good Girl". Book by Rachel Simmons, www.today.com. 2009.

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• When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Rights, People

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• Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!

  Marsha Jordan

  Love, Friendship, Peanut Butter

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• If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

  Seth Godin

  Choices, Emergencies, Brilliance

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• The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

  Laurence Overmire

  Kindness, Future, Greed

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• The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

  John Olsen

  Two, People, Important

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• For a human character to reveal truly exceptional qualities, one must have the good fortune to be able to observe its performance over many years. If this performance is devoid of all egoism, if its guiding motive is unparalleled generosity, if it is absolutely certain that there is no thought of recompense and that, in addition, it has left its visible mark upon the earth, then there can be no mistake.

  Jean Giono

  Mistake, Character, Years

  Jean Giono, Michael McCurdy (2007). “The Man Who Planted Trees”, p.3, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

  Zoe Weil

  Choices, Community, Earth

  Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.

  Claire Holden Rothman

  War, Holiday, Hopeful

  Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

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• The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Merry Christmas, People, Soul

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• You know what love is?
  It is all kindness, generosity.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Love Is, All Kinds

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