Giving Quotes - Page 95

The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift universe in the mouth! The best way to pay for a beautiful moment is to enjoy it.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to our bodily comforts. . . If a certain kind of dress constitutes a grave and proximate occasion of sin, and endangers the salvation of your soul and others, it is your duty to give it up.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense of accomplishment. It also forces you to push beyond your mental and physical barriers (especially the ones you've erected for yourself). You'll be amazed at what you produce and what you learn about yourself in the process.

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

I used to butcher my Barbies. I would draw hearts on their cheeks. I would give them haircuts and I would keep going because it would be uneven and they would be left bald

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.

As you give out, so shall you receive.

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is often our willingness to change our minds. Despite what might seem to be the saddest and most intractable situation, we have the power to believe that something else is possible, that things can change, that a miracle can happen.