Generous Quotes

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Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent… — John Steinbeck
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow… — Willa Cather
Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights."… — Claudia Gray
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter… — Jennifer Donnelly
You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even â€“ no, especially â€“ when you stand on… — Wilhelm Reich
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O… — Said Nursi
There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his… — Tessa Dare
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them… — Albert Camus
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot
The Mollusksâ€”generous hosts when they werenâ€™t trying to kill you. — Dave Barry
The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that… — Matthew Woodring Stover
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to… — Charles Dickens
You are who you are. I know you. You believe that? "Yea but--" "You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and… — Nora Roberts
Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. — Julian Assange
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a… — Rachel Vincent
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's strange the times people choose to be generous. — Stephen Chbosky

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