Search results for “giving and receiving”
Amanda Palmer on the Art of Asking and the Shared Dignity of Giving and Receiving
“When we really see each other, we want to help each other.”
The Art of Receiving: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning of Gratitude
“It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding. Receiving, on the other hand, if it be well done, requires a fine balance of self-knowledge and kindness.”
Seneca on Gratitude and What It Really Means to Be a Generous Human Being
“I am grateful, not in order that my neighbour, provoked by the earlier act of kindness, may be more ready to benefit me, but simply in order that I may perform a most pleasant and beautiful act.”
C.S. Lewis on Equality and Our Core Misconception About Democracy
“The tempter always works on some real weakness in our own system of values: offers food to some need which we have starved.”
The Remarkable Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
“Why is love rich beyond all other possible human experiences and a sweet burden to those seized in its grasp? Because we become what we love and yet remain ourselves.”
Henry Miller on the Beautiful Balance of Giving and Receiving
“It’s only when we demand that we are hurt.”
Love and Limerence: The Forgotten Psychologist Dorothy Tennov’s Revelatory Research into the Confusions of Bonding
“It may not be in contemplation of outer space that the greatest discoveries and explorations of the coming centuries will occur, but in our finally deciding to heed the dictum of self-understanding.”
How the French Mathematician Sophie Germain Paved the Way for Women in Science and Endeavored to Save Gauss’s Life
“The taste for the abstract sciences in general and, above all, for the mysteries of numbers, is very rare… since the charms of this sublime science in all their beauty reveal themselves only to those who have the courage to fathom them.”
Anne Lamott on the Life-Giving Power of Great Teachers
“All good teachers know that inside a remote or angry person is a soul, way deep down, capable of a full human life.”
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