#giver

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#future #life #sci-fi #the-giver #utopia

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#alone #belonging #jonah #life #lois-lowry

My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us. ↗

— John Passaro

#caregiving #fear #parents-responsibility #life

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#giver #hand #hardest #keep #love

Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#music

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#benefits #found #giver #giving #i

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#bless #difference #giver #kindness #love

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#almighty #anything #arbitrary #beneficent #better

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#choose #giver #god #had #i

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#corrupts #flattery #giver #receiver