Erica > Erica's Quotes

“We are not to judge the feelings of others by what we might feel in their place.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. -John Bunyan”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“And you look like the north side of a southbound mule.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“Why is it that I always get a whole person when all I want is a pair of hands? -Henry Ford”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. -C.S. Lewis”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“As a Trail Boy Manual says, intelligent strategy requires strategic intelligence--and we can keep tabs on enemy strategy from the comfort of our living room.
By monitoring the news?
By monitoring the ads.”
― Dave Agans, The Urban Legion

“She looks like a wet cat.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“You can fight popular culture, but you can't be popular at the same time.”
― Dave Agans, The Urban Legion

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes six thousand years ago, 'That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?...”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“But you don't now any of that yet. We squeeze his hand, He squeezes back. You stare up at the same sky together, and after a while he says, I have to go, and you say, Good-bye, and he says, Good-bye, Aza, and no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“... benefits of hardship.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

“For it is in giving that we receive. -St. Francis”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. PROVERBS 19 : 21”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“A legacy of true value is a legacy made of more than money. It's a legacy conceived in wisdom, nurtured by principle, and sustained by character.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“...he could finally give himself to emotions that he had held in check all during his early life.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“Whatever the case, as long as she kept her feelings firmly entrenched in the "like" category, she'd be fine. Anything less than complete emotional vigilance would be dangerous; Owen was leaving in a few weeks, end of story.”
― Lissa Manley, A Snowglobe Christmas: Yuletide Homecoming / A Family's Christmas Wish

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him. -John C. Maxwell, The Twenty-one Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“They will care about our business only to the extent that we care about their overall welfare.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“We give with joy in our hearts. We give out of our humble circumstances. We give out of our wealth.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“It's not how much we give but how much we put into giving. -Mother Teresa”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. -The Teacher, The Book of Proverbs”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“We want to be part of a new generation of givers.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“The wealth we create is like a bonfire. If controlled, it can warm our families. If allowed to spread wildly, it can devastate.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“Stewarship responsibility.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“I try to approach every day with hands that are open, not grasping.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

“... too many people think life is basically an oversized game of Monopoly, where the way to win is to accumulate as many properties as you can, either by purchasing outright or by clever trading with your opponents. Then you keep adding houses and hotels, extracting rent from others, until you eventually drive them to bankruptcy. You sit back, rub your hands together, and start counting your stacks of cash. No, life is more like Uno or Crazy Eights, where the point is to run out of cards first. You want to deploy every card you have, knowing that each card left in your hand at the end counts against you. Don't get stuck at the time of your funeral with leftover cards.”
― David Green, Giving It All Away…and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously