Generous Quotes

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Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer.… — Luanne Rice
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first. — Audrey Hepburn
Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million… — Cindy Gerard
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil… — Isabel Allende
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in… — Brian D. McLaren
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by… — Annie Dillard
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one whoâ€™s generous spirit, was the source… — Dean Koontz
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the… — Katherine Applegate
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally.… — Jewel
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage… — Seth Godin
On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how… — Mary Oliver
Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind. — Irving Stone
Donâ€™t you do that.â€ She turned away from the mirror, toward him. â€œDonâ€™t you dare make a joke. It took a great deal of courage… — Tessa Dare
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only… — Timothy Keller
So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good… — Sharon Shinn
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering. — Emily Bronte
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain… — Susan Fletcher
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests. — Marilynne Robinson
Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can… — Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good… — Fulton J. Sheen

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