To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.
Generosity is the best investment.
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.
The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.
I was influenced at an early age by Gandhi, and I have read many biographies of him. I have been greatly influenced in the last twenty years by Mandela. It is amazing that he has managed to keep such a balance, that he came out of prison after such a long time as a rounded, holistic person who could reach difficult accommodations with generosity.
Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.
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.
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.
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?
It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
Generosity is only benevolence in practice.
I live to feel her fingers move inside of me like this. The bus makes another stop. A fat man climbs aboard, hauling himself up the stairs. I would kill him for one more moment with her fingers inside me. I don’t have to. She gives me my moment for free. He lives because of her generosity. We all live because of her generosity.