When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.
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.
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word. . . courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.
More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need.
Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.
A generous action is its own reward.
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.
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.