Giving Quotes - Page 23

• Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Life, People, Quality

  Swami Ramakrishnananda Puri, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Secret Of Inner Peace”, p.125, M A Center

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• The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Freedom, Lying

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• The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.

  Laozi

  Life, Sleep, Good Day

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• Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Thinking, Natural

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• As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Success, Real

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• Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame?

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Crush, Sweet

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• My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

  Michael Ventura

  Life, Years, Twenties

  Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns

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• Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Animal, Men

  Codice Atlantico 76 in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1

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• Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Miracle, Wonder

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• That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Way, Seems

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

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• It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Mind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.233

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• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Book, Learning

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• There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Life, Responsibility, Exercise

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• You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Life, Learning, Knowledge

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

  Billy Joel

  Life, Joy, Victory

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

  Robert Frost

  Night, White, Fruit

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

  Brian Greene

  Physics, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots of other interesting questions -the ones with beautiful answers.

  Gregory Chaitin

  Beautiful, Art, Learning

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• Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

  David Gelernter

  Powerful, Real, Learning

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• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

  Epictetus

  Sacrifice, Two, Wish

  Epictetus (2017). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

  Daniel Albert Wyttenbach

  Business, Men, Littles

  "Dissertations on the Importance and Best Method of Studying the Original Languages of the Bible".

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• It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.

  Ardeth Kapp

  Children, Giving Up, Perfect

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• Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.

  Alana Beard

  Hero, Mean, Years

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• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Touching, Words Of Wisdom

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

  Plato

  Sorry, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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