Generosity Gibran Quotes & Sayings

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed ... Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. — Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. — Kahlil Gibran

For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father. — Kahlil Gibran

My heart's no less bulletproof than yours. Believe me. But if you feel like you have nothing, then you have nothing to lose, right? Give yourself a shot at being my . . . different. — Gail McHugh

The weight of her expectations crumble me. I've always done the right thing. She expects me to make good choices but I don't even know what good choices look like... — S.M. Parker

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child. — E. M. Forster

Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion. — Joe Abercrombie

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week. — Patricia Mauceri

You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you. Just keep things honest, okay? Tell me what you're feeling. If you're feeling something for Dimitri that's confusing you, tell me. We'll work it out. — Richelle Mead

That a woman's happiness does not come through man's glory and honour, nor through his generosity and affection, but through love that unites both of their hearts and affections, making them one member of life's body and one word upon the lips of God. — Kahlil Gibran

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don't know, but it's a world where there's no time, so space, no frontiers. — Paulo Coelho

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. — Kahlil Gibran