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• What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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

  Christy Turlington

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• 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

• And I don’t say that we didn’t expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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• I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

  Colin Luther Powell

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• Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

  Albert Camus

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• Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

  Adam Smith

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Topics in Education, Kindness, Soul, Sympathy

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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.

  Khalil Gibran

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• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  Khalil Gibran

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• Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

  Richard Dawkins

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• Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

  Vanna Bonta

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• There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

  John Holmes

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• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Kindness, Life, Success, T-shirt

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• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

  Nathaniel Branden

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• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

  Horace Mann

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• The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

  Jean Paul Sartre

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• Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

  Pamela Glenconner

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• Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

  John Davison Rockefeller

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