Giving Quotes

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer manifestations of life is God.

It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.

The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.

Death doesn't change anything. It just gives you a new location. The physical mind dissolves. But the overriding state of mind that you die in is the state of mind that you are born into.

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.

I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.

When you give of yourself, it's draining.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

I learned that real happiness doesn’t come from getting but from giving.

I believe in the rights of every individual and to have the opportunity to help strengthen our members and to give them voice has been a privilege. I really am honored.

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.