Giving Quotes
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Working nine to five, what way to earn a living. Barely getting by... It's all taking and no giving. They use just your mind and they never give you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less.
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A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
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God didn’t just give a little for us; He gave His best. He gave Himself.
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.
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The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.
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Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.
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There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.
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What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
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I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own joy, and that that is not distinct from pleasure and fulfillment of desires. So I ask: What makes me feel alive? What is the expression of my inner wild? What would really feel good? What if what makes me feel alive leads me toward the deeper joys, which are found in generosity and service, in creating things that are beautiful to me? Maybe the world needs more of that. How many petroleum company executives are doing their work because it's beautiful to them? Not very many, I bet.
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I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.
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You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.
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To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.
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Give yourself time to get better.
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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
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It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?
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You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action.
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You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
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When I live, I'll give it all I've got.
