#nero

* The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution ↗

— Bryant McGill

#generous #perception #food

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter. ↗

— Rex Stout

#nero-wolfe #food

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. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#poverty #revolution #life

Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#free #freely-give #generous #generousity #gifts

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness. ↗

— Sanaya Roman

#inspirational #kindness #self-love #forgiveness

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#forgiveness #freedom #generosity #relationships #spirituality

I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's- More, like a person than a bird? I says. Yeah, she says. That's it. Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it. ↗

— Moira Young

#blood-red-road #crow #funny #maev #nero

Be fair before being generous, be human before being fair. ↗

— Fernán Caballero

#generousity #human #inspirational #inspirational

Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first. Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943) ↗

— John Surowiecki

#intelligence

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#jealousy #reckoning #small-mindedness #tea #wine