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• The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friends, Honesty, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

  Nhat Hanh

  Relationship, Real, Love Is

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have.

  Byron Katie

  Fear, Law, Needs

  "Loving what is". Book by Byron Katie, May 7, 2002.

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  I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Love, Friendship, Father

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• When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Hands, Poverty

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• It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

  Ivan Panin

  Giving, Needs, Generous

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• I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Selfish, Opportunity, People

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Favour, Modesty

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• One promises much, to avoid giving little.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Keeping Promises, Giving, Broken Promises

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• You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 06, 2014

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• Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

  Bhartrhari

  Rain, Clouds, People

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• You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Being Yourself, Kindness, Differences

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• Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.

  Gerard Straub

  Kindness, Tired, Broken

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• When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Giving To Others, Given

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• Happiness never decreased by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Powerful, People, Comfort

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• Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

  Megan Chance

  Patience, Men, Impatient

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• Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Next, Mystery

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• I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Mistake, Writing, Character

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• Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

  Gautama Buddha

  Expression, Giving, Joy

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• To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perseverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important

  Rafe Esquith

  Perseverance, Teacher, Hard Work

  Rafe Esquith (2008). “There Are No Shortcuts”, p.156, Anchor

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• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Art, Strong, Ignorance

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• And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Mother, Differences

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4535, Library of Alexandria

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• In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.

  Basil King

  Love, Jobs, Fear

  Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.172, tredition

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• These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Evil, Relaxation

  'More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter' (1885) 'Epilogue of the Cigar Divan'

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