"You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow……" — Laozi
"You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it.
— Charles F. Haanel
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If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive…
— Unknown Author
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When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and…
— Roger Delano Hinkins
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We should commit ourselves to 'eucharistic coherence,' that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and…
— Pope Francis
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There is a feminine side of God. I always knew this … It is this feminine side of God I…
— Tony Campolo
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We should ask ourselves; What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give…
— James E. Faust
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You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
— Mark Twain
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Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot…
— John Yoo
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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive…
— Johannes Tauler
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Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue…
— Bob Dylan
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