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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the bir...

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Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attac...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....

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Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another ...

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Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident...

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All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be de...

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My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do t...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic ...

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Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, an...

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In God's economy, you may even harvest a crop in places where you didn't plant seed. When you're gen...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we s...

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You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man wal...

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just ...

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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consulta...

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The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the w...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

The giving of love is an education in itself.

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the h...

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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it...

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I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like al...

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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...

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Giving is the highest expression of potency.

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm...

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If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there...

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A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the a...

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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving ...

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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving ...

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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those...

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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving i...

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Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three condi...

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, ...

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The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's lik...

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We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, fre...

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As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such a...

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's ...

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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in f...

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it...

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If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should...

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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equival...

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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the great...

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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon b...

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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it aw...

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Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it ...

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Jack KerouacThe Dharma Bums

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn d...

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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?...

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Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

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Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

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Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your fam...

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If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I sha...

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Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but th...

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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised,...

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as toug...

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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't...

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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even t...

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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this ...

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I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas ...

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The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I t...

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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness...

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I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their bran...

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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.