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• In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.

  Emilie Schindler

  Sorry, Heart, Boys

  "Where Light and Shadow Meet : A Memoir". Book by Erika Rosenberg, 1997.

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• Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

  Franz Bardon

  Be Kind, Relentless, Fellows

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• Whoever is willing to enter the magic path should regard it as his sacred duty to practice regular exercises. He ought to be kind, generous and tolerant with his fellow men, but relentless and hard with himself. Only such behavior will be followed by success in magic.

  Franz Bardon

  Exercise, Men, Practice

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• If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.

  Jack Tatum

  Men, Understanding, Battle

  Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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• It appears that the ground of being which underlies
  and sustains us despite our various inadequate and
  conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous,
  and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt
  if we were, too.

  Alexei Panshin

  Hurt, Forgiving, Stories

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• Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthy—and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Caring, Support, Healthy

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• In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

  Jill Abramson

  Dog, Encouragement, Criticism

  "Changing Times" By Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. October 24, 2011.

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• Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

  Bruce Lee

  Giving, Effort, Desire

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.295, Tuttle Publishing

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• It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

  Andy Stanley

  Heart, Acting, Praying

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• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  Beatrice Wood

  Mother, Unhappy, Charming

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• At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

  Paula Danziger

  Should Have, Supportive, Age

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• Striding tall through Lauren St John's gorgeously written memoir is her father, and chapter after chapter their relationship is untangled and celebrated. Joy and a hunger for life infuse this book -- whether St John is writing about the harrowing years of Rhodesia's civil war, her childhood adventures in the bush, or the breaking apart of her family. Rainbow's End is a most generous and wise book.

  Lisa Fugard

  Wise, Father, War

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• Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous smile, and eyes that sparkle with delight can be part of any woman's signature look once she awakens to her authentic beauty.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Fashion, Heart, Eye

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

  Diane Frolov

  Thinking, Everyday, Important

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• Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.

  Amy Gerstler

  Fear, Vegetables, Snakes

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin

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• As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Book, Thinking, Practice

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• Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

  Richard Branson

  Determination, Hard Work, Passion

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• If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

  Plato

  Men, Generosity, Mind

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• Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

  Henry James

  Delicate, Pursue, Prize

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• To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.

  David Whyte

  Self, Joy, Doorways

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• Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Yield, Purpose, Gestures

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• Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Goal, Important

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• A grateful and generous heart is like a magnet.
  When you take the time to acknowledge the abundance
  in your life and share the wealth, you attract
  even more blessings and reasons to feel grateful.
  In this way, receiving and giving creates
  a circle of energy that serves us all.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Grateful, Heart, Blessing

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• How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Kindness, Thinking, Magic

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• How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

  Matt Ridley

  Sex, Writing, Differences

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