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“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Mitch Albom
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.”
Proverb
“Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.”
Vauvenargues Marquis de
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.”
Dean Koontz
“The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor”
Dutch Proverb
“Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
