Top 1200 Being Generous Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it's actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you.

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.

Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

The real Mike is somebody who is a positive person, a generous person. A loyal person. Somebody that's gonna help you if you call me up and say, 'Mike, I got a flat tire.' I'm there, you know?

Michael Bradley has the stuff of leadership; he works hard and can break up the opponent's play. However, that's not enough to justify his philanthropic attitude towards possession, the generous portion of balls that he contributes to his foes. His sloppiness constantly culminates in unnecessary goals.

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the Internet its life and meaning.

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

So being a senior player, being a goalkeeper, being a team member, I think saving the ball is my first main priority.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

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.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.