Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable…

— Suze Orman

“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.”

— Albert Camus

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

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

— Albert Camus

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend…

— Nelson Mandela

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

— Sir Fulke Greville

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning…

— Suze Orman

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.

— Paulo Freire

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of…

— Paulo Freire

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

— Coco Chanel

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Random acts of kindness are essential to our wellbeing, as they liberate us from self-obsession, selfishness, and isolation; they are the result of an…

— Ed & Deb Shapiro

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

— Ellen G. White

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

— Oliver Goldsmith