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"Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given."
"Let me think about the people I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me, I still love them. I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them - Then let me extend that generosity to myself."
"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still."
"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."
"It's best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It's easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it's a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million."
"True generosity means accepting ingratitude."
"One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something."
"It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive."
"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."
"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."
"The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away."
"The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing."
"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
"You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can."
"When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him."
"In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well."
"In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives."
"That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral."
"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
