Giving Quotes - Page 513

Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity.

Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.

True humility means giving joy to others.

Thus to act under the guidance coming from above, this is one side of the sadhana, the dynamic side. The other one is the discrimination between the Purusha and the Prakriti. The Purusha will calmly observe, give sanction, choose, but will realise that all this does not belong to him - all these are outside him. This is the static side of the sadhana. These two aspects constitute the basis of Yoga.

It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

...And Sunday's the one day I rest, give thanks, and bless.

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them.

Social media gives one a family to share ones life with.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

The false separation between living and giving must end.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!