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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.

    Death   Fear   Pride  
    Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211
  • True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

  • True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

  • A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

  • Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

    "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".
  • True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

    Law   Generosity   Duty  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.183
  • True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

    "The 8 Qualities of a Successful Life" by Suze Orman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.
  • True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.

  • Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

  • True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

    Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.165
  • That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

    "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.
  • The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

    Love   Selfish   Vanity  
    Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.65, Vintage
  • True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

    Lying   Fighting   Hands  
    Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

  • Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

    Life   Gratitude   Lying  
  • Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

    "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
  • There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

    FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 18, 2015
  • True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

    Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • 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 “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
  • The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

    "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.
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