Giving Quotes - Page 512

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best.

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.

I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.

American corporations hate to give away money.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.

I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.