Generously Quotes
100 quotes by 77 authors
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
— Bell Hooks
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No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall
— Brian D. McLaren
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Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not…
— Brian D. McLaren
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Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint…
— Camille Pissarro
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Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
— Joanna Russ
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As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.
— Alexander Suvorov
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It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk…
— Randy Alcorn
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Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous…
— Carl Holmes
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Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.
— Brian Tracy
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If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.
— Marie Dressler
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Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.
— John Green
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We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode…
— Pema Chodron
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Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense
— Henry Mintzberg
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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the…
— Virginia Woolf
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At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is no…
— Eric Liu
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