One of the great joys that comes from generosity is the understanding that no matter how much or how little we have by the world’s standards, if we know we have enough, we can always give something. --Sharon Salzberg (in Advertising for Global Good)

The practice of generosity is about creating space. We see our limits and we extend them continuously, which creates an expansiveness and spaciousness of mind that's deeply composed. --Sharon Salzberg (in America's Nicest Homeless Shelter)

If we want to make the imagination feel at home, generosity shows us the way. How else can imagination thrive but in a place where welcoming comes first and where judgment feels no need to speak and finally feels no need to be? --Sarah Wider (in Why Sharing Makes Sense)

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. --Emma Goldman (in Kids Embrace The Giving Spirit)

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. ... And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (in Dr. King's Definition of Service)

True generosity requires more of us than kindly impulse. Above all it requires imagination -- the capacity to see people in all their perplexities and needs, and to know how to expend ourselves effectively for them. --I.A.R Wylie (in Rescued Dog Pays It Forward)

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. --Albert Camus (in Ben Kennedy: Living Frugal, Giving Big)

Generosity consists not in the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed. --Unknown (in Kidney Transplant Record)

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving your all to the present. --Albert Camus (in The Business of Giving)

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy. --Robert Louis Stevenson (in Less Give More)

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. --Albert Camus (in The Monday Night Soup Master)

What I call the depth of generosity is when people are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. --Oscar Wilde (in Generous Vegetable Seller)

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. --Emma Golmam (in Tiny Superheroes Don Capes and Do Good)

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 (in Retailing With Heart)

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. --Emma Goldman (in What a 10-Year-Old Did for the Tar Sands)

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. --Kahlil Gibran (in The Geography of Giving)

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 (in Radical Generosity: From Me to We)

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. --Simone Weil (in 5 People Who Changed The World Through Extreme Compassion)

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. --Confucius (in Four Years of Compassion College)

No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing -- the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side. --Desmond Tutu (in Desmond Tutu & His Daughter: On Ubuntu and More)

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. --Kahlil Gibran (in The Love Kitchen )

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. --Jose Marti (in Why Free Money Day Makes You Richer)

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. --Simone de Beauvoir (in The Joys of Giving Large)

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. --Simone Weil (in A Life-Saving Coat for the Homeless)

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. --Albert Camus (in Today is a Gift)

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
--Dennis Prager (in Why Looking for the Good in Others Matters)

The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.
--Maya Angelou (in Grateful Changemakers: Karma Kitchen)

Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the earth for modesty.
Appear as you are. Be as you appear. --Rumi (in The Quality of Mercy)

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present --Albert Camus (in Wish You Were Here: Postcards from the Future)

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. --Simone de Beauvoir (in On Generosity)

If we are to work together more intelligently, we will need to choose processes that evoke our curiosity, humility, generosity and wisdom. --Margaret Wheatley (in Solving Complex Problems Relying on Diversity and Inclusion)

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. --Simone Weil (in Is Our Attention for Sale?)