Generosity

(204 votes)   Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(202 votes)   To generous souls every task is noble.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(131 votes)   Generosity is the flower of justice.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(130 votes)   Lavishness is not generosity.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(113 votes)   Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(108 votes)   Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(107 votes)   Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(85 votes)   I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.

George Bush
1924-, Forty-first President of the USA

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(83 votes)   The more he cast away the more he had.

John Bunyan
1628-1688, British Author

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(82 votes)   Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(80 votes)   If you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility.

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(78 votes)   Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

Jon Kabat Zinn

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(77 votes)   Giving is the business of the rich.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(66 votes)   It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(63 votes)   What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.

Robert of Doncaste

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