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This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
Paulo CoelhoOne great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeNo one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
SaadiSee here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.
Stephen R. LawheadEvery trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.
Billy GrahamSome men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.
Edwin Percy WhippleThere is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxNature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
Henry David ThoreauI want to just say something very, very personal. As you know, Louisiana has undergone a lot of flooding over the last couple of weeks August 2016. And I just want to thank the American people for their generosity and supporting so many victims of that terrible flooding.
Donna BrazileThe characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.
Bo BurnhamDetroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
Mitch AlbomAmerica has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.
Helen BoosalisShaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.
Hadiqa KianiOur life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
Germaine GreerBegin 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 TrungpaWho 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 KatieWhere position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.
Henry A. KissingerI do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates that we can walk with our eyes wide open straight into sheer destruction if there is a profit on the way-and that seems to me to be what we are doing now. I have no great expectation that human cussedness will somehow be quickly modified and turned into generosity or that humanity's care of the earth will improve much. But I do go around planting trees on the campus.
Joseph SittlerViewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
Seth GodinI believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
Elbert HubbardOut of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
John PiperWhen you go out with a drunk, youโll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as youโre drinking, drinking is okay. Twoโs company. Drinking is fun. If thereโs a bottle, even if your glass isnโt empty, a drunk, heโll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.
Chuck PalahniukWith these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.
William ShakespeareHe is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.
John EldredgeSince Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.
RumiWhat seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La RochefoucauldReal love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.
Catherine IngramLehman uses many conveyancesโincluding the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymesโto travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.
Ken TuckerAmerica will be a country of generosity and warmth, but we will also be a country of law and order.
Donald TrumpWho gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadnโt realized Edwardโs extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella
Stephenie MeyerGenerosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that survival instinct by constantly asking ourselves, โHow can I use my lifeโs energy to benefit all living beings?
Noah LevineGod's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
Andy StanleyIt wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
Saul Bellow