Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.
If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.
Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.
Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.
We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness.
Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.
The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.
If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.
If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives