#giving

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them. ↗

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#giving #language #life

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up. ↗

— Dane Cook

#appliance #been #business #giving #going

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#bitter #forgive #forgiving #go #imagine

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#back #emotional #giving #like #listen

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#between #big #car #church #doing

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#giving #i #money #my soul #off

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ↗

— George Eliot

#evidence #fact #giving #having #man

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#aught #give #giving #how #know

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too. ↗