#generous

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk. ↗

— Michael Buble

#boy #failed #generous #had #hockey

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did. ↗

— George Saunders

#did #generation #generous #genres #intelligence

How much easier is it to be generous than just. ↗

— Junius

#generous #how #just #much #than

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #kingdom #marriage-supper #mozart #mustard-seed

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ↗

— George R. Gissing

#generousity #money #poverty #money

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#democratic #generous #most #open #our

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. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#completely #conflict #control #dwelling #enjoy

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#generous #greatest #greedy #i #i think

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

#consent #forgiven #generously #only #share

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me. ↗

— Emily Watson

#am #amazing #beautiful #because #been