Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
The future is purchased by the present.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.