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Births

• 1908 - Robert Morley
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• Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Generosity, Burn

• If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generosity, Ruled

• Even after all this time,
  The sun never says to the earth,
  “You owe me.”
  Look what happens with
  A love like that.
  It lights the whole sky.

  Hafez

  Topics in Appreciation, Expectations, Friendship, Kindness, Life, Love

  Tags in Gratitude, Generosity, Hospitality, Giving, Forgiveness, Freedom

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Generosity, Graduation, Passion, Purpose, Meaning
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  Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Kindness, Love

  Tags in Angry, Generosity

• To look forward and not back,
  To look out and not in, and
  To lend a hand.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Topics in Commitment, Future, Service

  Tags in Generosity, Giving, Credo, Creed

• I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

  George H. W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity, Unity, Generosity, Creed, Credo
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  There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

  John Holmes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generosity, Helpfulness, Heart

• Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Generosity

• One’s performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

  Cyril Cusack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brilliance, Generosity

• It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.

  Earle Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creative, Reflection, Generosity

• Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

  Christy Turlington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compassion, Generosity

• I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that’s my generosity with the job.

  Elena Anaya

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Generosity

• I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

  Elia Kazan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage, Generosity

• Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

  Adam Smith

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Generosity

• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

  Erik Estrada

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grandfather, Taught, Generosity
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  Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generosity, Happiness
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  Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Real, Generosity

• 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

  Topics in Kindness, Truth

  Tags in Generosity, Virtue, Courage

• If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Topics in Effort, Mistake, Opportunity, Service

  Tags in Interdependence, Generosity, Sharing, Problem Solving, Responsibility, Guilt, Courage