Quotes for All
For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize … Read more
Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn’t mean he can’t be a generous person. Ezra Edelman
The langour of Youth – how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth – all save this come and go with us through life…These things are a part of life itself; but languor – the relaxation of … Read more
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen…. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard. Evelyn Waugh
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has … grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term … Read more
In far Eastern Russia, there’s just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there’s just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no … Read more
Money doesn’t make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous. Eve Ensler
The world has done that already – possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn’t aware of itself. It isn’t keeping track. It isn’t something you sign for. It’s endless and generous and enveloping. It’s … Read more
When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; ’tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see ’tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it. Eustace Budgell
To generous souls every task is noble. Euripides