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Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living. — Heather Dorff

The world is frenzied - giving and taking. — Julianna Baggott

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. — John Desmond Bernal

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. — Kahlil Gibran

The point is that the foundation that undergirds the act is one of mutual respect and giving- not taking or using. — Sylvain Reynard

Balance is not a passive resting place - it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it. — Harold Klemp

The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free. — Patch Adams

Not giving is no different than taking. — David Sedaris

Understanding where you come from means taking a good hard look at your past and giving yourself the freedom to learn from it. — Debra Fileta

I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing! — Ivan Turgenev

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi

No one can give us power. If we aren't part of the process of taking it, we won't be strong enough to use it. — Gloria Steinem

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. — George Nelson

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit. — Michael Jackson

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing. — Jon Anderson

All the grown-ups she knows keep taking bits of her guts away with them and never giving them back. — Brooke Davis

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it. — Carlos Beltran

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING. — Walter Russell

Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far. — Charlotte Bingham

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in. — Criss Jami

Happiness has more to do with giving than taking. Kamon 2015 — Kamon

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back. — Rodrigo Santoro

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed. — Jaggi Vasudev

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life. — James Gunn

I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave. — Madonna Ciccone

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. — Oswald Chambers

Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday. I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name. — Arsene Wenger

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving. — Bryant H. McGill

Giving is fraught with danger - as is taking. — Ali Smith

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking — Reba McEntire

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship. — Haruki Murakami

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want. — Carol Ann Duffy

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving. — Lindsay Lohan

Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving — Frederic Bastiat

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it. — Henry Cloud

There are two types of people on earth: givers and takers. Life is not about taking and having but about giving and living. — GE Paulus

Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action. — Andy Gilbert

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician. — William Osler

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out. — Warren W. Wiersbe

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking — Joyce Grenfell

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving. — Patch Adams

A book being read is a transaction between author & reader, a sharing, giving, taking & a reimagining of the author's offering. — Mark Rubinstein

Patch's eyes were black orbs. Taking in everything and giving away nothing. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets — Dean Koontz

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living — Steven Morrissey

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. — John Dewey

Freedom comes from taking responsibility; bondage comes from giving it away. — Henry Cloud

It's all taking the customer's money and giving him exactly what he wants and then leaving him poorer than when he started. — Robert M. Pirsig

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests. — John Dewey

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is. — Gayle Forman

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community. — Kevin Rudd

For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same. — Edward Coke

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. — Geoffrey Beene

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them. — Allan Dare Pearce

And since the griefstruck rarely know what they need or want, only what they don't, offence-giving and offence-taking are common. — Julian Barnes

Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. — Carol Burnett

To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give. — Publilius Syrus

There's nobody taking center from me until I give it up. — Joe DiMaggio

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking. — Jeffrey Fry

Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies. — Najib Razak

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it. — Chris Crutcher

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. — A.A. Milne

Love gives without taking — Erica Jong

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. — Ron Paul

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain. — Robert Frost

Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells. — Jay Leno

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory

Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes. — Katja Michael

Instead of worrying about taking, we should worry about giving. We can't stop the take. But we can do a hell of a lot about the give. — Kiera Cass

The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross. — Charles R. Swindoll

Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others — Saji Ijiyemi

Taking love is easy - giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway. — Nora Roberts

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime. — Joan Marques

That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves. — Cecelia Ahern

i thank the universe
for taking
everything it has taken
and giving to me
everything it is giving

-balance — Rupi Kaur

Taking chances on opportunities, even if they aren't right for you, gives you a clearer picture of where you want to go with your life and career. — Lauren Bush

Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide. — Malala Yousafzai

Success does not mean taking, it means truly growing and giving — Tony Robbins

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. — B.K.S. Iyengar

The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving. — Bryce Courtenay

Love is giving everything and taking nothing — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

She now belonged to two Doms. She was theirs for the taking, but also for the giving — Lila Munro

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. — James Cook