Giving Quotes - Page 134

We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.

It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily.

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.