Receiving Quotes - Page 20

• you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

  Agatha Christie

  People, Giving, Incapable

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Funerals are Fatal”

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• The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
  [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

  Sallust

  Kindness, Giving, Allies

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• I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

  Edmund Burke

  Childhood, Romance, Despair

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• Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Giving, Flattery, Ought

  Maria Edgeworth (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Equality, Giving

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Taste, Moral

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• The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mind, May, Purity

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.333

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• I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

  Andrew Jackson

  Paper, Ruins, Trash

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• If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

  Shelley Winters

  Play, Silence, Actors

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• What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

  Abraham Cowley

  Brave, Solitude, Privilege

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1826). “Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse”, p.137

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• Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.

  Arielle Ford

  Believe, Law Of Attraction, People

  Arielle Ford (2009). “The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.

  Shawn Achor

  Struggle, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

  Ellis Peters

  Religion, Benefits, Favors

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Hermit Of Eyton Forest”, p.58, Head of Zeus

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• I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Love Is, Law, Joy

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf

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• ... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Couple, Hands, People

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• The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud; in the second the expanded leaf; in the third the blossom and the fruit. And now, how sublime the idea of a religion thus commencing in the earliest dawn of time; holding on its way through all the revolutions of kingdoms and the vicissitudes of the race; receiving new forms, but always identical in spirit; and, finally, expanding and embracing in one great brotherhood the whole family of man! Who can doubt that such a religion was from God?

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Men, Ideas

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.196, Applewood Books

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• It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

  Merle Shain

  Strong, Taken, Mean

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• We are the necessary element since we expend nothing. Management can create its own capital -- the profits. Its business would grow and profits increase. Labor would prosper as well, while the price of the product would remain constant, the prosperity of industry, labor and management would continually increase. We Jews glory in the fact that the stupid goy have never realized that we are the parasites consuming an increasing portion of production while the producers are continually receiving less and less.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Stupid, Facts, Elements

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• The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

  Gwen Bristow

  Happiness, Something New, Made

  Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.209, Open Road Media

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• Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.

  Soyen Shaku

  Attitude, Guests

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• Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Love, Couple, Giving

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• Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving;
  Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

  Richard Realf

  Hands, Giving, Silence

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”

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• What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Effort, Waste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

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