Giving Quotes - Page 633

Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because it’s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy. That's also reality. Things working out is a reality. It's encouraging.

Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.

I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

The public seldom forgive twice.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

Now get this: I was happy in the moment. As I'm happy, the next moment brings its own rewards. As I'm happy in that moment, it too gives birth to more joy.

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.

In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.

[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

Someone who works only for the money will give you trouble one day because of money.

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.