Giving Quotes - Page 132

The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.

If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble.

Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Never give up your power to another person.

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.