"All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?"
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"Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life."
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"When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music."
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"Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way."
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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
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"Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late."
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"When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty."
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"Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity."
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"I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met."
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"We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?"
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"The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?"
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"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more."
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"I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership."
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"Generosity is the flower of justice."
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"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."
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"So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
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"Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope."
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