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“Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
William Shakespeare
“Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.”
Elbert Hubbard
“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
C.S. Lewis
“I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.”
Kingsley Amis
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
Anthony Robbins
“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.”
Socrates
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Anais Nin
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain
