Wednesday 12 December 2012

Generosity - Quotes

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give? - Jack Kornfield

Be just before you are generous. - Unknown

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed. - Unknown

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. - Kahil Gibran

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

It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need. - Allan Lokos

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. - Alexander Pope

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. - Frank A. Clark

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. - Margaret Cho

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. - Simone de Beauvoir

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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