Giving Quotes - Page 860

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

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

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.

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.

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?

When you make music you have to listen to people's opinions and keep working on your music. A lot of people will try to get you down because they don't realize how much you love it or maybe they are just jealous... Sure it will never be perfect, but never give up and work until you'll be satisfied!

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.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

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

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.

I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.

I used LiveJournal frequently, almost daily, since ~age 13 until ~18. I kept a personal diary there. I also participated in various "LiveJournal communities". At the risk of sounding patronizing or something, I see LiveJournal and now Tumblr as wonderful because they give young girls ways to interact with eachother and learn and talk about new interests, ideas etc as well as support eachother emotionally.

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

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

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.

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

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.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.

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 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.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.