Generosity is freely sharing what you have with others. It is being willing to offer money, help or time when it is needed. To be generous means giving something that is valuable to you without expectation of reward or return. Many traditions measure generosity not by the size of the gift, but by what it cost the giver.
Sometimes generosity requires pushing past a feeling of reluctance because we all instinctively want to keep good things for ourselves. Even so, we can structure our lives in ways that make generosity more spontaneous and fun. When we intentionally "live below our means" and avoid overcommitment, we cultivate a sense of bounty or surplus that makes us want to share. When we give, we reap the pleasure of knowing we have made someone else's life a little happier.(Source: Wisdom commons)
To allow poverty in the modern world is the most pervasive form of violence we enact upon one another. As long as we allow peoples to live in poverty, there will be no real or lasting peace – no end to violence, terrorism, and war. Selfishness, greed, and hatred produce poverty, a great adversary to our humanity.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
If you want trust, trust others. If you want respect, respect others. If you want help, help others. If you want love and peace in your life, give them away. If you want great friends, be one. That's how it works.