Quotes by Generosity If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing. Shailer Mathews generosityblessedblessing If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning? Seth Godin generosityemergencieschoices Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful. Seth Godin generositysuccessfulpeople Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine. Seth Godin generositydifferentopportunity True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens. Sharon Salzberg generositygivingcommitment Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable. Shaun King uncomfortablegenerositygiving Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation. Sharon Salzberg generosityvalidationoffering We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again. Seth Godin generositylonelinesslong The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share. Sharon Salzberg generosityspiritualheart Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery. Seth Godin generosityfansbravery Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better. Seth Godin generositydoeart There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. Seneca the Younger generositygracegiving India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart. Simon Beaufoy generosityprideheart Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Simone Weil generositycaringkindness That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. Simone de Beauvoir insperationalgenerosityinspirational Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. Simon Sinek expectinggenerosityreturn Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness. Sir Fulke Greville meannessgenerosityill True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. Sir Fulke Greville delicacygenerosityexpression Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. Sir Fulke Greville conquergenerositysometimes Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami generosityspiritualgiving«2627282930313233343536»
