The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver.

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.

It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.

Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another.

Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

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