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“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”
Quote by -Margaret Atwood
“I don’t understand why people aren’t a little more generous with each other.”
Quote by -Marilyn Monroe
If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Quote by -Buddha
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Quote by -Rumi
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. […] It speaks the truth, and it is just, generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations, and scornful of being scorned.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them
Quote by -Mother Teresa
Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other
Quote by -Mother Teresa
Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt
Quote by -Mother Teresa
If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement
Quote by -Mother Teresa
If you can’t do great things, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do them with a little love, do them anyway
Quote by -Mother Teresa
"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."
Quote by -Charles Lamb
"Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended...The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
“When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble?”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The too tender mother, the too indulgent father, the too generous and affectionate friend, may sometimes, perhaps, on account of the softness of their natures, be looked upon with a species of pity, in which, however, there is a mixture of love, but can never be regarded with hatred and aversion, nor even with contempt, unless by the most brutal and worthless of mankind. It is always with concern, with sympathy and kindness, that we blame them for the extravagance of their attachment. There is a helplessness in the character of extreme humanity which more than any thing interests our pity. There is nothing in itself which renders it either ungraceful or disagreeable. We only regret that it is unfit for the world, because the world is unworthy of it, and because it must expose the person who is endowed with it as a prey to the perfidy and ingratitude of insinuating falsehood, and to a thousand pains and uneasinesses, which, of all men, he the least deserves to feel, and which generally too he is, of all men, the least capable of supporting.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“So unworldly was he--or so capricious--that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle