Receiving Quotes - Page 8

• Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.

  Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

  Sky, Flying, Soul

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• How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Children, Lying

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• I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

  William Shakespeare

  Air, Laughing, Lips

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.21

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• One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hands, Giving

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• When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Happiness, Communication, Grieving

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• Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.

  Corrado Balducci

  Country, Real, Mexico

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• Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, War, Guitar

  "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" by The Beatles, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969.

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• Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Interesting, Culture, Uprooting

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• In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

  Hiro Fujiwara

  Kissing, Giving, Opinion

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• If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
  like jewels, small islands.

  Gina Gershon

  Islands, Receiving Love, Jewels

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• I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Wells, Seems

  FaceBook post by Debbie Reynolds from Jul 01, 2013

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• It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving it or receiving it, you become magnanimous to the rest of the world. That’s why people in love can do extraordinary things!.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Giving, Effort

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• Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

  Rachel Hunter

  Hurt, Infidelity, Ends

  "What I know about men". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.

  John Welwood

  Giving, Perfect, Scary

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet!

  Lonnie Dupre

  Wind, Weather, Feet

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• I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?

  Katrina Kenison

  Simple, Hands, Wind

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• You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

  Jean Harris

  Thank You, Gratitude, Humility

  Jean Harris (1993). “Marking Time”, Zebra Books

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• We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Country, Law, Government

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• For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Letters, Difficult, Deals

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• Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Light, Careers

  "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Newspaper, November 12. 1999.

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• Some people are very earnest after the things of God, and he who seeks finds, and the more he seeks in the right direction the more he finds. He that is dilatory in searching after the things of God, obtains but little; he that is diligent obtains much. All may receive it, but they must obtain it in the way that God has appointed, all receiving their measure according to their diligence and desire; but the spirit is the same.

  Charles W. Penrose

  People, Desire, May

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• Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

  John Irving

  Christmas, Home, Loss

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• As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Long, Understanding, Climate

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Exclusion of just one class of citizens from receiving a marriage license based upon the perceived 'threat' they pose to the marital institution is, at bottom, an arbitrary exclusion based upon the majority's disapproval of the defined class. It is also insulting to same-sex couples, who are human beings capable of forming loving, committed, enduring relationships.

  Terence C. Kern

  Sex, Couple, Gay

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• Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Change, Positive, Law Of Attraction

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.71, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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