Quotes About Giving Not Receiving

#1. 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

#2. Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.

Kate Atkinson

#3. Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

Meher Baba

#4. My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Nicholas Sparks

#5. 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

#6. Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#7. 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

#8. Abundance comes from giving not from receiving.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents and
purposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#10. Giving in order to get is not giving.

Alan Cohen

#11. I frequently hear persons exhorted to give their hearts to Christ ... But that is not the Gospel. Salvation comes from something that Christ gives you, not something that you give to Christ. The giving of your heart to Christ follows after the receiving from Christ of eternal life by faith.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. Not by receiving, but by giving, can you create abundance.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Some say that "there is no such thing as free lunch". And, I ask, why not?
The joy of giving without expecting anything in return from a particular source is simply magic.

Ana Ortega

#14. Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise.

Tapan Ghosh

#15. Love's value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.

Jeffrey Fry

#16. To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)

Jean-Yves Leloup

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

Vivian Amis

#19. Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving
Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

John Irving

#20. Joy does not come from receiving, but it always fills your heart when you are giving.

Debasish Mridha

#21. The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.

Santosh Kalwar

#22. It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the process in some way. It is only when we become disconnected from the process altogether that we should begin to worry.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#23. Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.

James Anthony Froude

#24. It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

#25. A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.

Rosa Campbell Praed

#26. Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

Peter Ellis

#27. If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

Patti Stanger

#28. There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.

Iyanla Vanzant

#29. Accept from those who have and share with those who do not

Mark W. Boyer

#30. The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

Ram Dass

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Joy and happiness derives not from receiving but from giving.

Debasish Mridha

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Kahlil Gibran

#37. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.

Antonio Porchia

#38. We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Rose Macaulay

#40. 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

#41. Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#42. Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. true giving lies not in receiving but in giving

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#46. 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

#47. I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

Joyce Grenfell

#48. 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

#49. Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.

Isabel Vincent

#50. 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

#51. Happiness does not come from receiving; it comes from giving with love.

Debasish Mridha

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. The value of a man resides in what he gives

Albert Einstein