Generous Quotes - Page 35

• There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

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• Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

  John Masefield

  Men, Generosity, May

  John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”

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• I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

  John Milton

  Education, War, Men

  "Paradise Lost and Other Poems".

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• American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

  Elinor Glyn

  Husband, Divorce, Wife

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• Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Political, Liberty

  H. G. Wells (1933). “Shape Things Come”

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• It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

  Demosthenes

  Men, Noble, Impossible

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• The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.

  Orville Dewey

  Truth, Spring, Roots

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• Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

  Sam Houston

  Men, Generous Man, May

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• Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  "I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2007.

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• Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.

  Florence Welch

  Pain, Nice, People

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• I don't believe that God is a fussy faultfinder in dealing with theological ideas. He who provides forgiveness for a sinful life will also surely be a generous judge of theological reflection. Even an orthodox theologian can be spiritually dead, while perhaps a heretic crawls on forbidden bypaths to the sources of life.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Believe, Reflection, Ideas

  Helmut Thielicke (1962). “A Little Exercise for Young Theologians”, p.37, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

  George Gissing

  Poverty, Bitterness, Curse

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.200, The Floating Press

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• I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

  Mary MacLane

  Fire, Feelings, Genius

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.116, Petrarca Press

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• Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.

  Bear Grylls

  Blessing, Exciting, Seeing

  Bear Grylls (2012). “To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life”, p.6, David C Cook

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• But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Wise, Strong, Brave

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• To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

  Mary Astell

  Running, Party, Glitter

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Permit, Difficult

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.33, Graphic Arts Books

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• The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Rich

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.190, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Feelings, Degrees, World

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• Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Kings, White, Space

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• If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.

  Greg Laurie

  Encouragement, Blessed, People

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• But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is an absolute-and they equate that absolute with their mythic god, and they stuff this god with all the characteristics that promote their own egoic inclinations, starting with the fact that if you don't believe in this particular god, you fry in hell forever, which is not exactly a generous view of Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Believe, Creativity, Views

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Theodore G. Tappert (2003). “Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel”, p.86, Regent College Publishing

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• St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Second Chance, Community

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• The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end.

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  Ram Dass

  Pain, Heart, Caring

  Ram Dass, Paul Gorman (2011). “How Can I Help?”, p.211, Knopf

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