#giving

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#authority #beautiful #celebrity #democracy #deserve

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#giving #happiness #having #only

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#cults #explore #fundamental #giving #giving up

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#express #feeling #following #gratitude #impulse

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. ↗

— Robert Frost

#forgiving #get #had #least #left

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#concentrate #even #giving #had #hesitation

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#door #giving #god #hard #i

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#cut #flowers #giving #grow #ineffective

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken. ↗

— Ina Garten

#chicken #dinner #large #like #making