The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
The hallmark of an artist is generosity.
We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.
When wholeheartedly we help someone, when in a natural and spontaneous way we care for the tree and water the flowers in the garden even though no one required us, there is authentic generosity, genuine sympathy, true love.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.
If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.
Generosity should never exceed ability.
In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.
Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel. " History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.
it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.
Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that survival instinct by constantly asking ourselves, ‘How can I use my life’s energy to benefit all living beings?
Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.
Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.
Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true. . . but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.
Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
