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True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
Sep 17, 2025
True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.
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.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
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.
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.
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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.
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.
Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
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