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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. -- Thomas Carlyle
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything. -- Ziggy Marley
The idea of life is to give and receive. -- Dizzy Gillespie
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. -- Khalil Gibran
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality. -- Marc Gafni
Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi. -- O. Henry
The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame. -- Amanda Palmer
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
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile. -- Helen Hollick
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship. -- Brene Brown
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. -- Henri Nouwen
Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love. -- Henri Nouwen
Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love. -- David Deida
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow. -- Iyanla Vanzant
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. -- Max de Pree
We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store. -- James E. Faust
I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror - they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion - giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need. -- Vera Farmiga
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
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. -- George MacDonald
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. --
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
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
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. -- Pope Francis
We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due. -- David Whyte
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
From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. -- Erykah Badu
I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. -- Gina Gershon
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced. -- Eduardo Galeano
Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion. -- Arjun Rampal
Giving opens the way for receiving. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. -- Meher Baba
Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving. -- Walt Disney
The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving. -- Bryant H. McGill
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving. -- Freya Stark
In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. -- Nicholas Sparks
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. -- Jim Rohn
Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading. -- Robin Sharma
When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving. -- Bob Burg
One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures. -- Samson Raphael Hirsch
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them. -- Louise Bay
just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving ... -- Peace Pilgrim
In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one. -- Hiro Fujiwara
Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe. -- Deepak Chopra
Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving. -- Martha Beck
Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it...Kind people are healthier and live longer. -- Piero Ferrucci
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift. -- David Steindl-Rast
Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful. -- Rose Macaulay
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living. -- John Sterling
Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way. -- Nicole Kidman
To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving. -- Marianne Williamson
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. -- Maria Edgeworth
I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer. -- Mike Ness
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level. -- Doreen Virtue
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking -- Joyce Grenfell
Giving and receiving is the law of life. When we give with love and accept with deepest gratitude, our souls rejoice. -- Debasish Mridha
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love]. -- Martin Luther
Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations. -- G. Frank Lawlis
Life is not about receiving. It's about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience. -- Peter E
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
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. -- John Welwood
If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. -- Paulo Coelho
At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it. -- Rod Parsley
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. -- Donald Miller
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
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
Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. -- Erich Fromm
The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery. -- Rachel Vincent
Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle. -- Laura Huxley
Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving. -- Richard Realf
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
You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude. -- Jean Harris
Of myself, I am nothing. In searching for myself, I lost myself. In receiving Christ, I found myself. By giving of myself to others, I find all joy. -- Justin Steckbauer
When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again. -- Lewis B. Smedes
I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving. -- Trevor McDonald
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

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