#receiving

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#after #among #anguish #birth #copy

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ↗

— William Temple

#capable #creature #live #man #more

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage. ↗

— Cass Canfield

#always #anonymous #any #author #center

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #his #journal #letter #like

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#degree #department #difficult #entered #excitement

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is. ↗

— Takeshi Kitano

#actor #blows #fighter #fighting #film

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#gift #grief #loss #love #passion

Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#love #receiving #relationships #love

One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It's also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don't feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know it's hard, but you're doing them a lasting favor. And a wider perspective can be difficult for you yourself to accept, in the beginning (during the time that you squint while the sunlight stings your own eyes), but later you'll find yourself coming back to it, even if you abandoned it as something worthless; you'll look for it, one day. Or it will grow on you. Perspective. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#giving-perspective #inspirational-quotes #perspective #perspective-is-a-gift #realizing-perspective

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives. ↗

— Cole Younger

#i #jim #lives #our #our lives