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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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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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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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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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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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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If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.
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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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Give yourself time to get better.
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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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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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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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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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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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Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
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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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Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.
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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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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.
