Quotes on Giving

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

What every woman knows is that we are remade each time we make love, each time we give birth; each time we feel the blood making its way through our body into our cupped hands, we remember it is our destiny to make change.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

Love is not a thing to understand. _x000D_ Love is not a thing to feel. _x000D_ Love is not a thing to give and receive. _x000D_ Love is a thing only to become and eternally Be.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.