Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.
God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.
The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?
My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.
Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.
Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek. ' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.