Giving Too Much Quotes

• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most.

  Nishan

  Hurt, Heart, Giving

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• Money often costs too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Happiness, Selfish, Love Yourself

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• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.

  David Cameron

  Stars, Giving, Too Much

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2016.

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• Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life And Death, Giving, Tragedy

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• The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

  Zadie Smith

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Giving, Details

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• By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

  Albert Camus

  Powerful, Men, Evil

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• Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

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