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"This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' '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."
"The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away."
"From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone."
"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
"Great spenders are bad lenders."
"The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it."
"Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others."
"Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in its beginnings. Generosity had a place in people's hopes."
"The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply."
"The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support."
"When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives."
"I have not met [Donald] Trump and discussed any issues with him. There have been Republican administrations like the [George] Bush administration who initiated this AIDS generosity. So it's not purely a right-left thing."
"Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once."
"Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior."
"You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you."
"If principles can become dated, they're not principles."
"If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own."
"These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds."
"The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India."
"A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence."
