Top 100 Giving Receiving Quotes
#1. everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help
Jay Woodman
#2. The way to win our heart back is to venture again, to risk giving, receiving and trusting again, and of course to risk getting hurt again, but deciding to forgive and to no longer use the hurt or fear to keep ourselves in prison.
Nick Williams
#3. Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love - to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.
Sharon Salzberg
#4. A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.
Doreen Virtue
#5. Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive.
Catherine Ponder
#6. For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
William Jewett Tucker
#7. Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#8. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.
Paulo Coelho
#9. If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.
S.A. Tawks
#10. Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul].
Dada Bhagwan
#11. I don't like giving or receiving gifts because I don't like that initial reaction. Although I do enjoy the love and the family aspect of Christmas, and I love eating with my family and friends and reconnecting with them.
The Miz
#12. Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Joy and happiness derives not from receiving but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#14. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#15. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
John Sterling
#16. At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe ... What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?
Alan Cohen
#17. The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.
Marion Woodman
#18. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
Kahlil Gibran
#19. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
Erich Fromm
#20. I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
Sharon Creech
#21. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
#22. The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
Sydney, Lady Morgan
#23. The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
George Eliot
#24. Give and Take ...
For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
Khalil Gibran
#25. My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#26. You cannot receive until you learn to release.
Kemi Sogunle
#27. All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors - in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
Fred Rogers
#28. Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
Walt Disney
#29. Your Sacrifices Create The Run Way For Your Blessings, It Has To Be A Sacrifice From You To Attract God's Attention
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#30. As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.
Fernando Pessoa
#31. We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#32. There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
Freya Stark
#33. The truth is that there are no "masters" in the spiritual life. Mature and wise teachers, yes. But fundamentally we are all beginners receiving and giving on our knees before God and with open hands before one another. In this business no one "lords it over" another. Pay
Richard J. Foster
#34. Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
G. Frank Lawlis
#35. Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
Meher Baba
#36. Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Maria Edgeworth
#37. Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
Rose Macaulay
#38. I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer.
Mike Ness
#39. The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
Lester Levenson
#40. There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back - all their lives.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#41. Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
John Gray
#42. With the many uncertainties, of one thing I was sure. I could not escape love, the very thing that had kept me mobile since the day I realized I was capable of giving and receiving it.
Rachael Wade
#43. Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.
Henry Miller
#44. Confidence is something that has developed over time which is a very positive thing to gain. Respect is also very important, both giving it and receiving it from other drivers in your team.
Liz Halliday
#45. Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.
Colleen Hoover
#48. Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.
Israelmore Ayivor
#49. Most Whores are completely unaware of how important they are to society, and subsequently do not have the opportunity to learn how to be all-compassionate, all-loving, all-giving and all-receiving incarnations of the Goddess.
Inga Muscio
#50. You could close your heart to love forever, but you'd miss out on all the good that came with giving and receiving love. You had to decide if it was worth the risk.
J. Sterling
#51. We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
Seneca The Younger
#53. People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.
D'Andre Lampkin
#54. Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Brian Tracy
#55. The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer
Sunday Adelaja
#57. The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
Bob Burg
#58. All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving what the Absolute has to nonfictively give.
David James Duncan
#60. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything.
D.L. Moody
#62. Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.
Margaret Neylon
#63. I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.
Shawn Fanning
#64. I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking
Joyce Grenfell
#65. Once you get used to people giving to you as much as you give to them and receive all of the benefits of a less stressful life, you will not consider putting yourself last. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#67. Love sparkles and shines out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom providing beauty. It causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty that is instilled within me and you.
Janet G. Nestor
#68. Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.
Isabel Vincent
#69. Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice.
Debasish Mridha
#70. If I am emotionally interdependent, I derive a great sense of worth within myself, but I also recognize the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others.
Stephen R. Covey
#71. If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.
Paulo Coelho
#72. Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving ...
Peace Pilgrim
#73. You must give if you want to receive. Let the center of your being be one of giving, giving, giving. You can't give too much, and you will discover you cannot give without receiving.
Peace Pilgrim
#74. In life; if you stay engaged in giving and receiving love, life will always be easier.
Renae A. Sauter
#75. Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.
Kate Atkinson
#76. There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.
John Welwood
#77. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
Gabe Newell
#78. Happiness does not come from receiving; it comes from giving with love.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Then, when Amelia was married, she found that the giving and receiving of forgiveness was a little like exercise. You didn't enjoy having to do it, but once you did, it got easier - and you learned to need it. Maybe that was what the Bible meant by being "exercised in the
Adina Senft
#80. Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it ... Kind people are healthier and live longer.
Piero Ferrucci
#81. When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#82. Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it.
Jonathan Franzen
#83. If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.
Amit Ray
#84. Please do not panic this is just how i feel I've been giving and receiving too much love and right now i feel like my heart is filled with love so I realised that i dont have to share my love with anyone cause i got enough love for my self
Love
#85. Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.
Deepak Chopra
#86. We are justified, not by giving anything to God,
what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
William Gurnall
#87. People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.
Jodee Blanco
#89. Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject ... [but] the blood of Christ is precious.
Billy Graham
#90. To receive more, we must give out what we receive ... For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.
Baird T. Spalding
#91. Life has only one equation. The equation of giving.
Amit Ray
#93. Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.
Ludwig Von Mises
#95. Some think that God rains money from heaven. These people can never be blessed because they themselves have shut their door towards prosperity by not giving and telling others not to give.
Paul Silway
#96. How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
James Cash Penney
#97. Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love ... receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].
Martin Luther
#98. Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
Brene Brown
#99. Receiving, gratitude, and generosity all grow together.
Mark V. Ewert
#100. You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)
Paulo Coelho
