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Giving Quotes (page 69)

There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work. And he did his work, giving his whole strength to the task. Leo Tolstoy
If I take a finger and touch you, you won't even know you've been tapped. If I take two fingers, you will know that something touched you. But if I bring all of those fingers together in a fist, I can give you a terrible blow! Dorothy Height
They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get. T. H. White
The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available. Lauryn Hill
I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance. Jodi Picoult
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. Homer
Nora Roberts quote: "It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into..."
It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation. Nora Roberts
E. M. Forster quote: "Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us..."
Adventures do occur, but not punctually. Life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. E. M. Forster
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends. C. S. Lewis
[...] having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind. [...] The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is besieged on all sides, and in the end the mind has to give itself up. Marcel Proust
... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace. Daphne du Maurier
George Foreman quote: "You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving..."
You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts. George Foreman
I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have one's illusions destroyed - that is really almost more than one can bear. Joseph Conrad
First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge. It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb. It’s like… It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single... human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way. Stephen Fry
Albert Einstein quote: "Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is..."
Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life. Albert Einstein

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