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Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: ‘Greed is the mother of incapacity’.
– Idries Shah

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  2. Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. – Idries Shah
  3. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed. – Idries Shah
  4. If your desire for ‘good’ is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. – Idries Shah
  5. The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. – Idries Shah
  6. Laziness – The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. – Idries Shah
  7. Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others. – Idries Shah
  8. The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it. – Idries Shah
  9. Prayer was never meant to be magic,’ Mother said.’Then why bother with it?’ Suzy scowled.’Because it’s an act of love,’ Mother said. – Madeleine LEngle
  10. The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself. – Soroosh Shahrivar
  11. Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves. – John Weece
  12. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. – Idries Shah
  13. What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others. – Dada Bhagwan
  14. The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless. – Israel M Kirzner
  15. The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness. – Billy Graham
  16. We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on. – Neymat Khan
  17. Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. – Gene Kranz
  18. … He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. – Robinson Jeffers
  19. Create an incapacity and you will incapacitate your creativity – Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
  20. The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. – Roland Barthes
  21. Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  22. Talk only if it’s worth, else it harms your worth only. – Vikrmn
  23. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger. – Carrie Jones
  24. It’s a sin only if it harms you – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  25. Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others. – Cortney S Warren
  26. No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer – Naguib Mahfouz
  27. Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition – Idries Shah
  28. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. – Tahir Shah
  29. ‘Nothing can make death easier,’ Cala said, ‘but silence can make it harder.’ ‘Speaking helps not,’ Maia said. – Katherine Addison
  30. The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath? – Donna Lynn Hope
  31. We have a lot of questions, and we want to understand.Music helps with that .Music helps with everything. – Lisa Schroeder
  32. Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot. – Chris Lynch
  34. Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal. – Amit Ray
  35. Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues. – Jay Woodman
  36. Being a good loser helps build character, provides valuable lessons, and helps you become mentally prepared for your next challenge. – Frank Sonnenberg
  37. Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith…it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine. – Holly Ordway
  38. The lightning said to the oak tree: -˜Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! – Idries Shah
  39. One of the great Sufis said: ‘A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one. – Idries Shah
  40. It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn. – Idries Shah

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