Giver Quotes

• The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

  Lois Lowry

  Lonely, Pain, Memories

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

  Lois Lowry

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Color

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Past, Unexpected

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

  Martin Luther

  Motivational, Thankful, Life Changing

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• The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

  Bob Burg

  Keys, Giving, Receiving

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2007). “The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.111, Penguin

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• It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

  Lois Lowry

  Important

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

  Bob Burg

  Leadership, Giving, Determined

  Bob Burg, John David Mann (2010). “The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

  Lois Lowry

  Life Changing, Distance, Echoes

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Art

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.16, Tuttle Publishing

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• Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

  Lois Lowry

  Dream, Distance, Snow

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can change things, you can make things better.

  Jeff Bridges

  Destiny

  "Fictional character: The Giver". "The Giver", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Friendship, Thank You, Giving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

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• Love the giver more than the gift.

  Brigham Young

  Love, Christmas, Meaningful

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• The gift without the giver is rare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thank You, Generosity, Giving

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• The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

  John Naisbitt

  Order, Leader

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• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Hands, Modesty

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

  Jeff Bridges

  Memories, Past, Our Future

  "Fictional character: The Giver". "The Giver", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

  Lois Lowry

  Disappear, Shoulders, Wanted

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Karma, Kindness

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.279, Dell

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• Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Thank You, Mean, Blessing

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• He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Gratitude, Buddhist

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• If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

  Lois Lowry

  Memories, Rivers, Forever

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

  Marvin Olasky

  Humility, Harm, Prudence

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• We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

  Lois Lowry

  Letting Go, Sameness

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm basically a gift-giver.

  Christie Hefner

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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