"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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4/22/12

Quotes on GENEROSITY

"Generosity is a beautiful garden without wall." ~Anon
On Generosity

"A generous person always sends someone away happier than when they arrived." ~Anon

"A generous person lives in a generous world. A selfish person lives in a selfish world." ~Anon

"A generous person speaks more kindly to his enemies than an ungenerous person does to his friends." ~Anon

"A hand extended in generosity is stronger than one that is closed into a fist." ~Anon

"A simple act of generosity is capable of wiping out the lean years and makes the spirit shine again." ~Anon

"A world without generosity is no more imaginable than a year without its seasons." ~Anon

"Arise cheerfully and live the day in happy readiness to be generous." ~Anon

"Be generous with your heart. The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use each other as our living temples, and put our best offering foot forward to see what direction life points us? I believe that if we live in a state of offering — even if we think we have nothing to offer — life blesses us and we feel more at peace with who we are and what we have." ~Agapi Stassinopoulos

"Be smart if you can, funny if you want to, but be generous-that is essential." ~Anon

"...but our very openness and generosity and tolerance can be used against us, to demean us, to mock us, to spite us and in fact, even to harm us and to make us look small in front of the world. "~Jyothi Menon

"Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate." ~Harry Browne

"Generosity can be the first step toward cultivating a nurturing and compassionate heart." ~Anon

"Generosity does not measure; it just gives." ~Anon

"Generosity flows from a loving heart, not from a leather-bound checkbook." ~Anon

"Generosity is a beautiful poem without words." ~Anon

"Generosity is a higher revelation than philosophy." ~Anon

"Generosity is a network of invisible threads of kindness, linking us together." ~Anon

"Generosity is about being yourself in every thought and deed." ~Anon

"Generosity is clapping and cheering the person who got the breaks that you narrowly missed." ~Anon

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." ~Kahlil Gibran

"Generosity is giving someone an inch and secretly hoping that they take a mile." ~Anon

"Generosity is impoverished by impatience." ~Anon

"Generosity is its own motive." ~Anon

"Generosity is like looking through a wide-angle lens that allows you a view of the whole of humanity." ~Anon

"Generosity is never a single act; it must be a continuum, a thousand small actions that bring about a slow transformation." ~Anon

"Generosity is not just something you do in your spare time." ~Anon

"Generosity is real when we make room in our heart for someone to grow." ~Anon

"Generosity is the feeling of smiling on the inside." ~Anon

"Generosity is the flower of justice." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Generosity is the golden chain of good deeds that binds the world together. ~Anon

"Generosity is the oil which keeps the spirit burning." ~Anon

"Generosity is the only thing we can be good at without practicing first." ~Anon

"Generosity is the perfect solution to the puzzle of human existence." ~Anon

"Generosity is the rent we pay for living on earth." ~Anon

"Generosity is watering someone else's garden when you could be watering your own." ~Anon

"Generosity makes ordinary people extraordinary." ~Anon

"Generosity means loving people more than they deserve." ~Anon

"Generosity means opening your mind, even when it's empty." ~Anon

"Generous people make the best teachers because they share their knowledge instead of showing what they know." ~Anon

"Generosity provided the way out of every situation that has no way out." ~Anon

"Generosity removes the rust from the mind and allows our thoughts to shine through our actions." ~Anon

"Generosity walks hand in hand with vulnerability; it can make you feel quite exposed, if you're doing it right." ~Anon

"If you gradually open your heart, little by little you will discover that we find ourselves when we practice generosity." ~Anon

"In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed. 
In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them.
In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path.
In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue." ~Paulo Coelho

"It takes a generous and courageous person to stand their ground when walking away would give them the greater benefit." ~Anon

"Lavishness lasts until the money runs out, but generosity lasts a lifetime." ~Anon

"Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us." ~Pablo Neruda

"Life without generosity is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." ~Anon

"Make generosity your religion." ~Abib

"No act of generosity was ever accomplished without two things: enthusiasm and humility." ~Anon

"No one is so underserving that a generous mind cannot find something to offer them." ~Anon

"Poverty might steal your wealth, but it can't touch your generosity." ~Anon

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

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present." ~Albert Camus

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

"The generous person finds peace and then passes it on." ~Anon

"The highest manifestation of practical wisdom is a generous mind." ~Anon

"The most generous thing you can for someone is not to share your riches, but to guide them towards their own." ~Anon

"The secret of generosity is admiring without desiring." ~Anon

"The secret of generosity is when you use your extra energy to help someone else, rather than to get to the top first." ~Anon

"The whole secret of generosity lies in learning how to use your eyes, your hands, and your heart." ~Anon

"True generosity helps you rise above any anxiety about its outcome." ~Anon

"Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity." ~Henry Ward Beecher

"When it costs the most, generosity is worth the most." ~Anon

"When you're feeling generous, don't promise more than you can realistically deliver." ~Joanne Madeline Moore

"Where there is generosity there will be abundance even amid scarcity." ~Anon

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for generosity." ~Anon



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"The Art of giving is a mastery of tranquility." ~Anon

"When you give without expecting anything in return, love and kindness is released into the universe on the wings of angels." ~Robert Clancy

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