#giver

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself ↗

— Lois Lowry

#inspirational #loved-this-part-in-the-story #the-giver #inspirational

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. ↗

— George Washington Cable

#everybody #giver #knows #lord #loveth

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers. ↗

— Phil Crane

#better #dad #found #givers #how

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#givers #others #time #times #us

For the will and not the gift makes the giver. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#giver #makes #will

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