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"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."	Confucius
"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."	Quentin Crisp
"Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are."	Joan L. Curcio
"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul."	General Charles De Gaulle
"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely."	Charles Dickens
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."	George Eliot
"Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."	George Eliot
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."	George Eliot
"I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!"	Richard Exely
"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."	Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."	Kahlil Gibran
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."	Kahlil Gibran
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."	André Gide
"God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has."	Arthur John Gossip
"I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when someone kills someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars!'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give."	Damien Hess
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."	Eric Hoffer
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Junius	Kahlil Gibran
Nadia Boulanger	Ogden Nash	Og Mandino
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Richard Exely	Saint Augustine	Saint Francis of Assisi
Sheldon Kopp	Simone de Beauvoir	Tao Le Ching
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