In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others. from Letters and Papers from...
Give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over.
The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude."
It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.
It’s not that God won’t give you more than you can handle, but that God will help you handle all that you’ve been given. from Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
I give myself completely to you, God.Assign me to my place in your creation.Let me suffer for you.Give me the work you would have me do.Give me many tasksOr have me step aside while you call others.Put me forward or humble me.Give me riches or let me live in poverty.I...
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Spare me perfection. Give me instead the wholeness that comes from embracing the full reality of who I am, just as I am.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.