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Generosity Quotes
"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
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"When we give out to others we are also giving to our selves. It builds a life of meaning."
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"As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving."
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"Pay it forward generates more value than tit for tat."
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"You can NEVER be poor by giving and showing love to others."
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"But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent."
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"Generosity is not only giving but also a sign of caring."
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"The awareness that 'money will get spent' must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That's why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again."
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"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving."
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"A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind."
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"A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty."
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"This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit."
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"Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008."
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"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed."
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"Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth."
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"Generosity is the heart of humanity."
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"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
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"You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me."
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"They truly embodied goodness and generosity " like angels sent to save me in my hour of greatest need. Mohammed had risked everything to keep a promise to my father. He and his family saved not only my life, but also my faith in others."
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"The heart that gives, gathers."
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"You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love 'in the bank' to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment."
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"Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously."
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"But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded."Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time."
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"I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.""They're not empty now."
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"If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one under your Yule tree."
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"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
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"When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving."
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"Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid."
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"When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you learned that someone needed help, you showed them all that you had learned without fearing that you might be revealing secrets or being used by others. To he who knocks, the door will open.He who asks will receive.He who consoles knows that he will be consoled.Even if none of these things happens when you are expecting it to, sooner or later you will see the fruits of the thing you shared with such generosity."
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"We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give."
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"A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little."
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"Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood."
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"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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"A most loving virtue of all, is that of a cheerful giver with the right attitude of LOVE! Giving is not just a random act of kindness. It is an investment in humanity. In return you become more than yourself, you transcend."
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"Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others."
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"I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who's half a man,Or the man who's half a boy."
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"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."
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"The greatest gift you can open is your arms to someone in need."
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"Yes, you may have your cake and eat it too. I will only take the rest of the world along with all the other cakes in it, thank you!"
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"Generosity is an act of love."
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"In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party."
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"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true."
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"Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love."
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"Having given all he had He then is very rich indeed."
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"If you're giving to get, all you'll receive is disappointment. But if you're giving to give, all you'll receive is joy."
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