When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.
It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.
Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor
The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.
It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.
People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. . . . I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.
To generous souls every task is noble.
You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.
You only get to keep what you give away.
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.