"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."
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"Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days."
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"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."
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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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"Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity."
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"Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment."
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"Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow."
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"I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others."
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"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity."
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"Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love."
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"Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots."
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"When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime."
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"As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative."
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"Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others."
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"Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have."
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"The gift without the giver is rare."
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"We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me."
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"I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it."
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"If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity."
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"Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness."
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