Giving Quotes - Page 35

• The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Hate, Heart

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• Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each organism according to its works; and if anything grows too weak or stupid to take care of itself, she gives it its due deserts by letting it die and disappear.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Nature, Stupid

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

  James Trefil

  Nature, Taken, Law

  James S. Trefil (2003). “The Nature of Science: An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Governing Our Universe”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.

  Dave Barry

  Errors, Support, Lines

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• RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

  Dave Barry

  Memories, Errors, Guy

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• History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Long

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.89, Beacon Press

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• Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Light

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.59, Beacon Press

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• When God gives, he holds nothing back.

  Rick Warren

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• Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Essentials, Morality

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• We receive from God, then we give to others.

  Rick Warren

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• I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Time, Stress, Two

  M. Scott Peck (2009). “A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered”, p.81, Bantam

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• Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

  Christine Warren

  Time, Abuse, Suffering

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• Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Time, Self, Twenties

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• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophy, Caring

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• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  John Ruskin

  Time, Failure, Long

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.139

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• The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Moving, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Believe, Hard Work

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• Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

  Jessica Simpson

  Spiritual, Romance, Special

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• No one can upset you, unless you give them permission.

  Paul Robert Hanna

  Wise, Upset, Permission

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• ..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.

  John C. Maxwell

  Self, Influence, Self Reliant

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.64, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

  John C. Maxwell

  Helping Others, Keep Smiling, Want

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Rebel

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Purpose

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.84, Macmillan

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• You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're not interested in any of us or in anything we do. You think if you pay the bills, that's enough, don't you? Money! That's all you know. And all you give us is money. Have you even given us any time?

  Ayn Rand

  Time, Money, Sorry

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.45, Penguin

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• My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Loss, Shining

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.2911, Delphi Classics

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