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• Forbearance is a form of generosity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• A padded jacket is an acceptable gift even in summer.

  Topics in Japanese Proverbs

  Tags in Generosity

• Rather ten thousand lanterns from a wealthy man than one lantern from a poor man.

  Topics in Japanese Proverbs

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• What bread men break is broken to them again.

  Topics in English Proverbs

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• The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him.

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• The generous can forget that they have given, but the grateful can never forget that they have received.

  Topics in American Proverbs

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• True generosity is the ability to accept ingratitude.

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  Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generosity, Attention
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  There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

  John Holmes

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Generosity, Helpfulness, Heart

• Even after all this time,
  The sun never says to the earth,
  “You owe me.”
  Look what happens with
  A love like that.
  It lights the whole sky.

  Hafez

  Topics in Appreciation, Expectations, Friendship, Kindness, Life, Love

  Tags in Gratitude, Generosity, Hospitality, Giving, Forgiveness, Freedom, Faith

• Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Generosity, Burn

• If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generosity, Ruled

• The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  Mitch Albom

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Generosity, Graduation, Passion, Purpose, Meaning
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  Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Kindness, Love

  Tags in Angry, Generosity

• To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in, and
  To lend a hand.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Topics in Commitment, Future, Service

  Tags in Generosity, Giving, Credo, Creed

• I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

  George H. W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity, Unity, Generosity, Creed, Credo

• Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Generosity

• One’s performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

  Cyril Cusack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brilliance, Generosity

• It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

  Earle Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creative, Reflection, Generosity

• Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

  Christy Turlington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Generosity