A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
慷慨
Generosity
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
人性是女人的美德,慷慨是男人的美德。
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
许多人轻视财富,但很少有人知道如何把它送人。
The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him.
慷慨的人付出的比别人给他的多。
If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.
如果你相信自己能造成伤害,那么就相信自己能修复。
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
你靠你得到的东西谋生。你的付出造就了你的人生。
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
太多的人放弃了慷慨,转而投身慈善事业。
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
对未来真正的慷慨在于把一切都献给现在。
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
坦率和慷慨,除非经过适当的节制,否则会导致毁灭。
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
让我们试着教导慷慨和利他主义,因为我们生来就是自私的。
To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.
向前看而不是回头, 往外看而不是往里看,还有 伸出援助之手。
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
真正的慷慨是为那些永远不会发现的人做一些好事。
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
穷人不知道他们在生活中的作用是锻炼我们的慷慨。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
用爱使愤怒的人沉默。仁慈地让这个坏脾气的人闭嘴。慷慨地让守财奴闭嘴。用真理堵住说谎者的嘴。
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
有一个奇妙的神话般的自然法则,我们在生活中最渴望的三样东西——幸福、自由和内心的平静——总是通过给予别人而得到的。
It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
鉴于对一般人的任何程度的乐观和宽宏大量,对创造性思考或参与创作的人数设置时限是不可能的。
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
慷慨不是给我比你更需要的东西,而是给我你比我更需要的东西。
True generosity is the ability to accept ingratitude.
真正的慷慨是接受忘恩负义的能力。