Giving Quotes - Page 370

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at his program, almost no substance. Change, hope, what's that? I mean, he had some policies, but it was almost certain that he would give them up instantly, which he did.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent

[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).

The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.

You are okay just the way you are... and so is everybody else. Sometimes we want the kind of acceptance that we are not willing to give. Yet life is a two-way street, and we do so much better when we send to others what we want them to send to us. Just a gentle reminder today that you are wonderful, and the person right next to you is, too!

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

There is no real happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.

Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

Nobody gives a rat's nipple about me.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.