"Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness."

-- Erich Fromm

#Love Quotes #Lying Quotes #Power Quotes

“The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.”
“As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.”
“And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.”

Source : Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.234, Penguin UK
“All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.”
“Much of command is the ability to take command.”
“Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].”
“Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?”
“Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.”

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