Quotes About Receiving

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.

The decay of giving is today matched by a hardness towards receiving.

Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.

You should also know that a true woman is more pleased by the pleasure she gives to a man than by the pleasure she takes from him.

Taking love is easy—giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus — what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside.

?nsan ald???n? silen bir varl?kt?r, yaln?zca verdi?inin hesab?n? yapmay? bilir. (s. 146)

Generosity is a willingness to give, to open without philosophical or pious or religious motives, just simply doing what is required at any moment in any situation, not being afraid to receive anything.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

It is easy to love and sing one's love. That is something I am extremely good at doing. Indeed, that is my art. But to be loved, that is true greatness. Being loved, letting oneself be loved, entering the magic and dreadful circle of generosity, receiving gifts, finding the right thank-you's, that is love's real work.

Lord... We are people, and my plea is Let me be a someone, 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.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most astonishing sonic experiences I have had. It's an enormous room that's acoustically perfect. My interpretation of receiving music as a layman is that the way the music kind of settled on me in that room was perfection.

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.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Soldiers are in the business of death-inflicting it, and, as little as possible, receiving it. They must be careful, but they also must take risks. And they reduce those risks by planning.

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24).

You can receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost without an immediate supernatural manifestation.