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Quotes About Receiving

We give up our time, and get His eternity; we give up our sin, and receive His grace; we give up petty loves, and receive the Flame of Love.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
President and Mrs. Kennedy would walk into the East Room with their honored guests, preceded by the military color guard, who then posted their flags behind the receiving line. This ceremony never failed to move all of us, no matter how many times the staff witnessed it.
~ Letitia Baldrige
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
~ Max De Pree
For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.
~ Albert R. Broccoli
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
~ Rumi
The gift you can give to other people is allowing them to give you something.
~ RuPaul
Sabbath keeping is a way of ordering one's whole life to honor the rhythm of things--work and rest, fruitfulness and dormancy, giving and receiving, being and doing, activism and surrender. The day itself is set apart, devoted completely to rest, worship, and delighting in God and his good gifts. And the rest of the week must be lived in such a way a way as to make Sabbath possible.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
Giving thanks is usually the result of receiving something. Asking or begging is an energy that comes from not having (lack). With prayers said in this way, the Universe aligns so that you receive abundantly that for which you are thankful.
~ S. Myers
I learned how to receive favours and kindnesses
~ Marcus Aurelius
Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life
~ Marci Shimoff
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.
~ Michael Josephson
Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
~ Thomas a Kempis
In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
~ William Blake
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
~ Theodore White
I was not sent into the world merely to exercise the good capacities and good feelings of others - was I? - but to exert my own towards them; and when I marry, I shall expect to find more pleasure in making my wife happy and comfortable, than in being made so by her: I would rather give than receive.
~ Anne Bronte
Give and you shall receive, much more than you ever thought possible. Give and give again. Keep hoping, keep trying, keep giving! People who give will never be poor!
~ Anne Frank
Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
~ Rajneesh
My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give.
~ Sri Chinmoy
When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar