Quotes About Receiving

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

Life, nature and God always answer, 'Yes,' to you. What are you asking for?

Writing as if she were receiving information from another troubled and perplexed source or voice that was speaking to her, Jerry described the beauty of the Brazilian

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Chapter 104 of the Holy Qur-an is entitled the Slanderer. Please read it and the footnote (#2794), which fits very well with the slander I am now receiving from the chief hypocrites.

We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

She was standing some paces away from them looking out to sea, and so deep was her wound that she was afraid, and her fear was discernible in her voice. For just a moment she lost hold of her childhood's certainty that to give love is to receive it again in equal measure, and she wondered what it would be like to go through the whole of life giving more than one was given. . . . The hunger . . . the dissatisfaction.

He had always known that to truly receive, you had to give. Now he understood the equal truth: that to be able to give with a whole heart you had to be prepared to receive in turn.

No one, to my knowledge, has figured out the secret to love. We love imperfectly, Tyler. We all do. Even Jesus wrestled with that. But I think - I think the ability to receive love is as important as the ability to give it. It's one and the same really.

What comes from a willing hand is far more acceptable than what comes from a full hand. "It was a small favour for him to do"; yes, but he could do no more. "But it is a great thing which this other gave"; yes, but he hesitated, delayed, grumbled in the giving, gave disdainfully, or he made a show of it and had no mind to please the person on whom he bestowed it. Why, such a man made a present to his own pride, not to me!

Most people would rather give than get affection.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. —Matthew 7:8

Giving is so much better than receiving when it's generated by an act of love—especially at Christmas! — Connie Pombo

Give as freely as you have received! —Matthew 10:8

Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. —Luke 6:38

I think there is more than enough literature of the criticizing sort...To read much of it seems to me seriously injurious: it accustoms men and women to formulate opinions instead of receiving deep impressions, and to receive deep impressions is the foundation of all true mental power.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

nourishing and sustaining. He feels entitled to the best others can offer without