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  • Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
  • The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. -- Albert Camus
  • That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. -- Simone de Beauvoir
  • True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself. -- Sir Fulke Greville
  • A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. -- Suze Orman
  • True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches. -- Ellen G. White
  • The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • I go to work, and I work very hard. I'm loyal, generous, true, kind, fair - all those boxes are ticked. I'm going to Heaven. -- Rhys Ifans
  • True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. -- Suze Orman
  • One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. -- Maya Angelou
  • As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true. -- Felix Dennis
  • No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. -- Emma Goldman
  • One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away. -- Jennifer Grant
  • After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. -- Martin Jacques
  • The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect. -- Annie Besant
  • The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted. -- Greil Marcus
  • True generosity means accepting ingratitude. -- Coco Chanel
  • Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. -- Madame de Stael
  • True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. -- Paulo Freire
  • True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity. -- Nhat Hanh
  • Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery. -- Seth Godin
  • True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself. -- Suze Orman
  • True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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