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“The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'”

World Giving Jesus Gains

Author:Philip Yancey

“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.”

People Ifs Giving Years Actors Winning Roles Successful Five Drama Six Gains Weight Credit Oscars Sitcom

Author:Mike O'Malley

“You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.”

World Giving Interest Politician Degrees Gains Independence Wide Acquaintance Effectiveness

Author:William Hague

“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.”

Giving May Ends Impossible Habit Giving Up Projects Gains Determination

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.”

Giving Inspiration Faith Hundred Gains Profit Christian Inspirational Kingdoms Bread Generous Coins Everlasting Wheat Transitory Bread Of Life

Author:Thomas of Villanova

“Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell”

Giving Earth Father House Walks Lord Hell Keys Holy Eternal Angel Gains Let Me Definitions Passing Passings This Life Spite Priesthood Tokens Departed Endowment Exaltation Ordinances Sentinels

Author:Brigham Young

“An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.”

Giving Teach Teacher Shapes Gains Instruments Enlightened Mysticism Unhappiness Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.”

Giving Should Women Hurt Path Walking Gains Ethical Giving And Receiving

Author:Amy Dickinson

“There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?”

Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well