Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Stanger

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

Percy Ross

He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes.

Paullina Simons

You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander

Paullina Simons

I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

Paul Valery

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

Paul Valery

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language, and which does not give rise to any difficulty when it is engaged in the rapid movement of an ordinary sentence becomes magically embarrassing, introduces a strange resistance, frustrates any effort at definition as soon as you take it out of circulation to examine it separately and look for its meaning after taking away its instantaneous function.

Paul Valery

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Paul Valery

A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

Paul Twitchell

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Paul Tsongas

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Paul Volcker

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Paul Tudor Jones

Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.

Paul Wellstone

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Meher Baba

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

Meher Baba

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

Meher Baba

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.

Meher Baba

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.

Mary McLeod Bethune

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.

Mary Oliver

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Mary Oliver

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

Marty Nemko

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

Martin Cruz Smith

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Martin Buber

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

Martin Buber

This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

Martin Amis

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Mark Salling

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.

Pope Benedict XVI

Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life.

Pope Benedict XVI

Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and he gives you everything.

Pope John Paul II

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

Pope John Paul II

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

Pope John Paul II

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.