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Giving opens the way for receiving. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity. -- Cheryl Richardson
Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense. -- Justus von Liebig
Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested. -- Rhonda Byrne
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. -- Peace Pilgrim
Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul. -- Marion G. Romney
Receiving oral sex from an ugly person is like rock climbing; you should never look down. -- Stewart Francis
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. -- John Welwood
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice. -- Rick Warren
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value. -- Phylicia Rashad
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. -- Jim Rohn
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor - well, that would be called an honor. -- Meghan Daum
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
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
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. -- Armstrong Williams
If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and what is wrong. Receiving all opinions equally, Without haste, wisely, Observe the dharma. -- Gautama Buddha
Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children. -- Jerry Pinkney
Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis. -- Samantha Stosur
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying. -- Michael Spence
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. -- Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. -- George MacDonald
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
I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm. -- Louise Hay
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. -- George Eliot
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. -- Jean Cocteau
Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well. -- Debbie Reynolds
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
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving. -- Carla Bley
What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything. -- Dwight L. Moody
I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches. -- Helen Suzman
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel. -- Helen Keller
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. -- Aristotle
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. -- Albert Einstein
My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery. -- Melissa Rivers
If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want. Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good. -- Rhonda Byrne
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. -- Loretta Young
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. -- Julian Bond
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. -- Martin Van Buren
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. -- Elizabeth McGovern
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. -- Charles Spurgeon
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day. -- Martin Chemnitz
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
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
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. -- Philip Emeagwali
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. -- John Lennon
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
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. -- Martin Van Buren
Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and body depends on each child receiving the care of between two and five completely bonded caregivers. -- Michael Gurian
In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up. -- Pierre Omidyar
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought. -- Khaled Hosseini
You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. -- Octavia Spencer
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. -- David A. Bednar
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. -- Saint Ambrose
I love receiving fan mail. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
Asking is the beginning of receiving. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Asking is the beginning of receiving... -- Jim Rohn
Gratitude is what starts the receiving process. -- Jim Rohn
You don't measure life by receiving awards. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am not receiving orders from Ariel Sharon. -- Yasser Arafat
Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion. -- Pope Francis
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. -- Meher Baba
Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving. -- Walt Disney
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving. -- John R. Rice
The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving. -- Bryant H. McGill
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving. -- Freya Stark
Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline. -- George Eliot
Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind. -- Paul Hindemith
Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar, -- Luis Bunuel
Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading. -- Robin Sharma
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving. -- Agatha Christie
When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving. -- Bob Burg
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.' -- Brittany Snow
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light". -- Brittany Snow
Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle. -- T. Harv Eker
Liberals measure compassion by counting the number of people receiving government help. -- Rush Limbaugh
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving -- Robert Green Ingersoll
One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures. -- Samson Raphael Hirsch
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God. -- William Ames
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. -- Richard Steele
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy -- Richard Steele
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. -- Khalil Gibran
There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing. -- Brian Wong
You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation. -- Sophia Amoruso
Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it. -- Giordano Bruno
Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
By sharing, we express our gratitude for abundance and create emptiness for receiving. -- Debasish Mridha
Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving. -- Bryant McGill
ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them. -- Louise Bay
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. -- Adrian Rogers
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. -- William Hazlitt
just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving ... -- Peace Pilgrim
Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did. -- Gerald Chertavian
All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs. -- John Walters
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving. -- John Dewey
Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy -- Neil Young
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. -- Gina Gershon
Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving. -- Coventry Patmore
In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one. -- Hiro Fujiwara
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it. -- Timothy Keller
The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. -- Laurence Sterne
Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return. -- Roy Bennett
being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have. -- Gwen Bristow
When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones. -- Franz Grillparzer
When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine. -- Jeff Bridges

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