#Receiving Quotes

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

“He is a good man who can receive a gift well.”

“As you awaken you go beyond the need to perform and achieve when you go beyond it, you begin to develop an increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it. Love becomes what you are.”

“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.”

“I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”

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

“The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

“Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.”

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

“It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.”

“As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.”

“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

“One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.”

“You give before you get.”

“Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.”

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”

“He who has little will receive. He who has much will be embarrassed.”

“You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.”

“The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.”

“And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.”

“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”

“If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.”

“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.”

“I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.”

“Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.”

“I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.”

“Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.”

“Give and Take...For to the bee a flower is a fountain if lifeAnd to the flower a bee is a messenger of loveAnd to both, bee and flower,the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.”

“Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.”

“He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.”

“Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?”

“One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.”

“Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.”

“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.”

“Gratitude is what starts the receiving process.”

“The soil says, don't bring me your need, bring me your seed.”

“We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.”

“Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.”

“We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.”

“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”

“Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.”

“What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.”

“Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.”

“It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.”

“And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.”

“GRACE: All you can do is take it.”