Generous Quotes - Page 27

• Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Ambition, Sadness, Sight

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• Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

  Mother Teresa

  Sacrifice, Soul, Trying

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.33, Random House

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• How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Mother, Fall, Thinking

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• The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

  Wilkie Collins

  Book, Used, Masters

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

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• The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

  Carol Ryrie Brink

  Generosity, Giving, Rewards

  Carol Ryrie Brink (2011). “Caddie Woodlawn's Family”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Trying, Monsters

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• You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

  Agatha Christie

  Selfish, People, Done

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kindness, Lying, Flower

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1933, Bantam

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• Once you best a man, never gloat. Be generous and find something in his actions to praise. He won't enjoy being bested but he'll make a good face about it. Show him you appreciate it. Praise can win you a friend. Gloating will only ever make enemies.

  John Flanagan

  Winning, Men, Appreciate

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• Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?

  Orson Scott Card

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Animal

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• 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

  Believe, People, Trying

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from May 30, 2014

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• How generous the universe could be, when he wanted to be!

  Cassandra Clare

  Wanted, Universe

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• That is a noble idea, though I think it far to generous," Jupiter said. "Once a decade should be sufficient." "I would rather be too generous than not in such cases." "As you wish." [One day, Atticus was amazed to discover that when Jupiter said, "As you wish," what he really meant was "I love you."]

  Kevin Hearne

  Love You, Thinking, Ideas

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1738, Del Rey

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• Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.

  Sarah MacLean

  Selfish, Doe, Gabriel

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• A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Knowing, Needs

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• She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day. Agatha knew it. And she smiled at everyone who crossed her path, as if it were the most generous thing she could offer.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Perfect, Lovely, Path

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.359, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

  Pietro Aretino

  Anger, Mind, Desire

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

  Winston Churchill

  Positive, Hurt, Mistake

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Soul

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• The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

  William Carey Jones

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls”, p.303

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• What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Art, Simple

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.180, eBookIt.com

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• Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
  To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
  As in a foundering ship.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Self, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.352

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• There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power.

  J. William Fulbright

  Self, Two, America

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.274, Random House

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• "Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Fear, Ubuntu

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