Giving and Receiving Quotes

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Today, and everyday, I give that which I want to receive.

If you are not willing to receive, then you are "ripping off" those who want to give to you.

What you give, you become.

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.