#giving

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— William Baldwin

#ethic #gift #giving #instilling #keeps

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #away #contrasted #death #destiny

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#accorded #animal #been #brings #forth

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#already #eyes #giving #gracefully #having

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#calling #comes #countrymen #field #giving

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#empathy #giving #love #solutions #beauty

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances. ↗

— Dick Button

#form #giving #good #great #makes

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#encouragement #example #giving #stewardship #stories

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #community #encouragement #example #giving