Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.
One of the sanest surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
Strong generous and confident she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance this great land of ordered liberty for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Liberals it has been said are generous with other peoples' money except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
Everything is just better in California - the wine the food fruits and vegetables the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.
Sure I have friends plenty of friends and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family with money but selfish with the important stuff like love.
In dwelling live close to the ground. In thinking keep to the simple. In conflict be fair and generous. In governing don't try to control. In work do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present.
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.