#giving

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

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I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me. ↗

— Robert Fritz

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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ↗

— Irv Kupcinet

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Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

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I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

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Life demands much. Give more. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#experiences #giving #life #living #living-life-to-the-fullest

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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