Giving Quotes - Page 303

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.