Giving Quote by Simon May Download Open image “Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.” — Simon May ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giving Greed Pleasure
Greed causes you to never be satisfied, because you always want more and as soon as you get what you want — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. — Ivan Boesky Copy Share Image
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction,… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it.… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“Greed is a way of avoiding making choices: if I have everything I don't have to choose what I want. And choosing what I… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“This is how all love works. Like Israel's love for God, love does not need deep knowledge of the other to be evoked and sustained-- through, once inspired, it might seek such knowledge. Love is evoked not by beauty or moral goodness (in the sense of kindness) but by the mysterious promise of the loved one to anchor and sustain… — Simon May Copy Share
“This is the feeling that I call ‘ontological rootedness’ – ontology being that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and experience of… — Simon May Copy Share Image
“Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our… — Simon May Copy Share Image
“By imputing to human love features properly reserved for divine love, such as the unconditional and the eternal, we falsify the nature of this… — Simon May Copy Share Image
The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence. — Simon May Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go… — Peter Schiff Copy Share
