If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.
It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is given; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.
Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other.
You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor.
I was born in Europe. . . and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.