(14 quotes found)
“love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it”
Maya Angelou
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
Albert Einstein
“It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought along all I needed to survive.”
Ethan Zohn
“I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.”
Anthony Robbins
“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.”
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
Anais Nin
“Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Most people would rather give than get affection.”
Aristotle
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