Giving Not Receiving Quotes

• Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.

  Meher Baba

  Delight, Glorify, Giving

  "Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba". Book by Bhau Kalchuri, 1986.

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• The value of a man resides in what he gives

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Generosity, Giving Back

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• The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving much you impoverish yourself. By selfish accumulation you become bankrupt.

  Julian Johnson

  Selfish, Forever, Soul

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• Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

  Meher Baba

  Happiness

  "Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba". Book by Bhau Kalchuri, 1986.

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• In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Inspirational, Loving Someone

  TheBookReport interview, www.bookreporter.com. October 29, 1999.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Merit, Giving Back, Pleasure

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.80, Penguin

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• I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

  Antonio Porchia

  Given, Gift Giving, Giving And Receiving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• 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

  Love, Friendship, Family

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• Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

  Meher Baba

  Diversity, Delight, Glorify

  "Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba". Book by Bhau Kalchuri, 1986.

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• Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
  Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Fall, Passion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

  Meher Baba

  Oneness, Delight, Enchiladas

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