Giver Quotes - Page 3

• There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

  Lois Lowry

  Shapes, Rooms, All Alone

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  Edmund Burke

  Flattery, Flattering, Adulation

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.9

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• I'm not a very good advice-giver.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Advice, Good Advice, Very Good

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• Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

  Lois Lowry

  Elephants, Tree, Body

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, Laurel Leaf

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• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Atheist, Religion

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• Love and kindness are never wasted.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Karma, Inspirational Love, Kindness

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• Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

  Mother Teresa

  Gratitude, Prayer, People

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• We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Believe, People, Answers

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press

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• God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Spring, Heart

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• Love is in the giver, not the gift.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Love Is

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• Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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• So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Daughter, Pain

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin

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• Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

  Lois Lowry

  Care, Needed, Courses

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "I liked the feeling of love," [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. "I wish we still had that," he whispered. "Of course," he added quickly, "I do understand that it wouldn't work very well. And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." [...] "Still," he said slowly, almost to himself, "I did like the light they made. And the warmth."

  Lois Lowry

  Wall, Light, Feelings

  "The Giver". Book by Lois Lowry, 1993.

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• Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

  Bob Burg

  People, Income, Determined

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2017

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• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Giving, Three, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

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• I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

  Lois Lowry

  Sorry, Stupid, Strange

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

  Arianna Huffington

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• Givers advance the world.  Takers advance themselves and hold the world back

  Simon Sinek

  World

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2012

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• God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Heart, Mind

  Charles Stanley (2011). “Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living”, p.60, David C Cook

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• The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

  Storm Jameson

  Law, Literature, Critics

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Life, Power, Judging

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• Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Grace, Infinite

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• But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

  Phoebe Cary

  Sisterhood, Thinking, Little Sister

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “Ballads for Little Folks”, p.132

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• Getters don't get - givers get.

  Elden Benge

  Inspiring, Gratitude, Giving

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