"It needs as much generosity to take as to give."

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Ivan Panin

#Generosity Quotes #Giving Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.”
“Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.”
“Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.”
“Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.”

Source : Robert Nathan (1970). “Mia”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.”
“I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.”
“If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.”
“I love women because of their spirit, courage, and the things they go through in the process of family and life and then all the complexities and now the careers of the family and life and the whole thing. But I feel badly for our men in all of our traditions.”

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