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In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. -- Erich Fromm
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer. -- Mo Yan
The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give. -- Phylicia Rashad
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 act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives. -- Bill Crawford
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality. -- Barnett Newman
While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. -- Rachel Held Evans
On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations. -- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping. -- Michel Martelly
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation! -- Sam Taylor-Wood
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. -- Marcus Aurelius
When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy. -- Emily Browning
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. -- Mahatma Gandhi
At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him. -- Michael Haneke
It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with. -- James Cameron
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. -- Vivien Leigh
In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with being generous to those in need. -- Vincent Nichols
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude. -- Giacomo Casanova
I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam. -- Giuliana Rancic
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act. -- Kelly Preston
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. -- Paul Tillich
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. -- Emile Durkheim
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others. -- Steve Nash
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer. -- James Fenton
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. -- Berenice Abbott
I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones. -- Kaitlin Doubleday
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take. -- J. R. Moehringer
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. -- Orson Welles
Giving words [is] an act of lovers. -- Francois Rabelais
Faith is giving the divine a chance to act. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving. -- Bryant H. McGill
The first act of love is always the giving of attention. -- Dallas Willard
Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart. -- Vinayak
I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience. -- Carlton Cuse
Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom. -- William E. Rothschild
Worship, the act of freely giving love to God, forms and informs every activity of the Christian's life. -- John Wimber
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. -- Jack Welch
Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith. -- William Arthur Ward
Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment. -- Chris Huhne
Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life. -- Pope Francis
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. -- Rita Mae Brown
There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households. -- Judy Woodruff
I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind"). -- Erykah Badu
In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were. -- Michael Caine
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving. -- John Ruskin
It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others. -- Frederick Lenz
It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others. -- Frederick Lenz
What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die. -- Steve Toltz
The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act. -- Vandana Shiva
There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving. -- Jacques Ellul
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone "? it doesn't always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time. -- Miranda July

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