On Giving Quotes

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

Living with your decision must be hard. Nothing I or anyone can say will give you any peace. You must reconcile your actions in your heart.

Before he turned away, I asked, 'What do you need?' 'I need you. I need to give you a proper kiss. I need you to be my mate.

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?" "You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love.

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.

I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.

The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

Never give yourself permission to avoid doing what is right.

Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!

Working your obliques pulls everything together and gives you a slim waist.

We grow, we mature, some of us give birth, we age, we die.

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.