#generosity

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#girls #love #purity #self-sacrifice #suffering

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things. But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#love #sacrifice #love

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now? ↗

— Megan Chance

#impatience #men #patience #men

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#guilt #kindness #retribution #guilt

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

— Richard Dawkins

#because #born #generosity #let us #selfish

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

— Khalil Gibran

#giving #less #more #need #pride

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

#giving #i #i do #me #more

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#generosity #happiness #life-lessons #beauty

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

— Frank A. Clark

#find #generosity #never #nice #out

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#discover #generosity #only #open #others