On Giving Quotes

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Don't give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live!

Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!

Give yourself to the images which are, in fact, already there.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

I am going to give from every corner of my soul.

Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

I just don't give off a great first impression.

Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

If you look at astronauts closely, their eyes look kind of puffy. And it gives you this mild headache. But one of the advantages of that, if you will.

If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.

Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility