Receiving Quotes
499 quotes by 416 authors
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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
— Donald Miller
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be,…
— Richard Dawkins
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True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger…
— Kathleen Norris
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I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why.…
— Daniel Handler
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Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision…
— Helen Keller
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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
— Oscar Wilde
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Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly…
— Brené Brown
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The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety…
— Carter G. Woodson
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Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it…
— Justin Cronin
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Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one…
— Daniel Handler
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There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and…
— Arthur W. Pink
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The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the…
— Edward Bernays
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To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness.…
— Brené Brown
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Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land…
— Bernie Siegel
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For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
— William Jewett Tucker
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Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is…
— George MacDonald
Who Wrote These Receiving Quotes
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