Giving Quotes - Page 861

Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge. Amen.

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?" "You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.

Living with your decision must be hard. Nothing I or anyone can say will give you any peace. You must reconcile your actions in your heart.

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

Before he turned away, I asked, 'What do you need?' 'I need you. I need to give you a proper kiss. I need you to be my mate.

When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.