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Tag Name "Generosity" (671)

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Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
Saint Francis de Sales
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
Idries Shah
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The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.
Gretchen Rubin
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Forbearance is a form of generosity.
Gretchen Rubin
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It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.
Harry S. Truman
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Some 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 Whipple
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
Elbert Hubbard
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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.
Orel Hershiser
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I want to be able to fight for what I'm worth, not someone else's generosity.
Carlos Newton
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The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Seneca the Younger
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If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.
Wayne Dyer
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Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett
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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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There never was a revelation without a question first.
John Andreas Widtsoe
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It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
Joan Didion
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I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.
Mark Leyner
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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
Will Rogers
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We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
Rob Bell
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The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.
Francine du Plessix Gray
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
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