Being generous Quote by Warren St. John

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well”…

— Rolf Potts

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set…

— John Woolman

“When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy,…

— Pope Francis

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

— Jimmy Carter

“We are raised from when we are little to be generous and helpful, but the interception of greed in a select few as they…

— Anthony Karakai

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

— Felix Frankfurter

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will…

— Anonymous

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less…

— Francis Atterbury

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy…

— Shakti Gawain

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in…

— Mother Teresa