#generosit

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold ↗

— Dale Wasserman

#generosity #giving #goals #goals-in-life #heroism

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others may have loftier parts to enact; but my mission in this world, Bartleby, is to furnish you with office-room for such period as you may see fit to remain. I believe that this wise and blessed frame of mind would have continued with me, had it not been for the unsolicited and uncharitable remarks obtruded upon me by my professional friends who visited the rooms. But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous. ↗

— Herman Melville

#influence #purpose-of-life #life

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life. ↗

— Confucius

#enduring-good #generosity #life #wise-advice #work

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims. ↗

— Jon Porter

#american public #been #earthquake #generosity #hurricane

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#essence #generosity #gives #readily #sacrifice

God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite. ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god-s-grace #attitude

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#exemptions #forgiveness #generosity #genius #leniency

As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#compassion #confidence #expectations #generosity #goodness

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#forgiveness #freedom #generosity #relationships #spirituality

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