Giving Quotes - Page 426

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures - look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take pictures and keep on taking pictures!

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

I can't love you unless I give you up.

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.

Well folks, what do you think? Here's our choices.. Should I give Paul Bearer back to Kane? Should I shove Paul Bearer down these steps?

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.