Inspiring Generosity

In a mere moment a story, quotation, poem, passing remark or mere gesture can be enough for generosity to move into our hearts and minds and become central to our lives. "Inspiring Generosity "is a rich offering of such moments. The desire to act generously arrives like uninvited guest, unexpectedly, like a lightning bolt, in a mere moment. A gesture, a news story, a quotation in a book, a passing remark can change everything. For many, that moment is enough for generosity to move into their hearts and minds and become central to their lives. "Inspiring Generosity" is an offering of such moments. "Inspiring Generosity" offers an invitation to savor a sampling of the very best inspirations on the subject of generosity. It includes fifteen contemporary stories of generosity heroes whose lives have been transformed by the power of generosity. Sprinkled throughout these stories are writings and quotes from Shakespeare, Hafiz, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Wendell Berry, Sharon Olds, A.R. Ammons, Naomi Shibab Nye, Donald Justice, Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Steinbeck, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, Seneca, Albert Schweitzer, and Anne Frank to name only a few of more than a hundred collected here. This book will help readers open their hearts to the power of their own innate generosity, their desire to make a difference in the world, to help make someone s day a little brighter or their world a bit more secure. it will kindle a spark in readers hearts that moves them into the sunshine of a more generous life. And if one life is more generous, we all prosper. That is one of generosity s most wonderful qualities: It is utterly contagious.