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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.
I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.
No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply by quiet, even invisible acts of integrity, kindness, and generosity, than by fame and fortune.
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.
When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.
Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
I know a lot of people do charity work, but I always say find something that you are interested in to be able to give back.
Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.
It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
I knew what it was to be poor... my mother worried about putting food on the table. I knew what it was to feel excluded and shut out, but I also knew what it was to experience love and generosity.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
You know, he [Alan Rickman] played these very reserved, sometimes-cold, sometimes-threatening characters on the screen, but the reality of the man was incredible warmth and humor and generosity and wicked fun.
People I admire have two qualities: a kind of simplicity, and generosity of spirit. It seems to me that the more impressive people are in what they have done, the simpler they tend to be in how they talk to you, or in what they say or write.
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.
I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces.
.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
I have this whole theory that whether it's in your personal life or in your business life, you have to establish a culture of generosity wherever you are.
I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.
...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
Growing up, my family was like an unofficial foster home. My dad was a judge and my mom was a director of a women and children's charity.
Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.
Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity.
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.
I did once talk non-stop for 12 and a half hours, but it was to raise money for a worthwhile charity. At least, that's my excuse.
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that
Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.
Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.
Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
