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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match...If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

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

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

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!

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

Never lie under any circumstances.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply by quiet, even invisible acts of integrity, kindness, and generosity, than by fame and fortune.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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

One can love any man that is generous.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.