Actualization Quote by Jim McDonald

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

— Peter McWilliams

“Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier…

— Anthony Powell

When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live…

— Eric Hoffer

Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown

— Anonymous

“People who would feel obligated to be honest somehow feel freer when asked for their candor; they have a choice about whether to give…

— Ed Catmull

“There is a difference between desire and desperation.”

— Tyra Banks

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

— Melina Marchetta

“True that life is given, And received. But truer still: The single-act of giving Makes the offerer the beggar, too—”

— Edith L. Tiempo

“Involvement requires not only being able to give, but also being able to take from others--there must be [a] willingness to give the other…

— John Stewart

Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind…

— Sharon Salzberg

“My generosity must bear a cost or there’d be no value in what you gain from it. There’d be no second thought for me,…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld