#ene

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are. ↗

— Patti Digh

#gifts #giving #giving-space #life

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ↗

— John Geddes

#self #self-awareness #the-heart #the-soul #the-spirit

When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know. ↗

— Ben Aaronovitch

#intergenerational-relations #life

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.” (p.157) ↗

— Piero Ferrucci

#life

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it. ↗

— Les Claypool

#bored #couple #general #i #just

Genetic code is a divine writing. ↗

— Toba Beta

#creation #divine #dna #genetic #god

Music in general is looking for something new overall. ↗

— Les Claypool

#looking #music #new #overall #something

Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree? ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#politeness #thoughtfulness #life

Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #life

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#generosity #good #goodness #help #muhammad-ali