Life Quote by Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra

“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it…

— Charles Dickens

“To give. He, who had only ever known how to take.”

— Juliana Gray

“Had been bulky men, quietly content, who, in our first youth, had come to grasp our own unremarkableness and had, cheerfully (as if bemusedly…

— George Saunders

“Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to…

— Henry James

“The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.”

— Mario Puzo

“They had offered him comfort and shelter, even when he was afraid of taking them, and in accepting he had learned something new. It…

— Rachel Joyce

“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to…

— Charles Dickens

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Think about those who deserve your time and emotions. Because, valuable things should never be wasted and should be delivered with care to those…

— Rakesh Akuthota

“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to…

— Virginia Woolf

“Takers don't inspire the world. Givers do.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“What dominated his mind was not the living but the giving of his life.”

— John Stott