“GIVE, even when you know you can get nothing back.”

— Ralph Smart

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Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Se puede no deber nada devolviendo la luz al sol.
Voces (1943)

“Music is not a very stable business. You know it comes and it goes, and so does money. But your education stays with you for the rest of your life and when you have that education and you have nothing fall back on you can go and get a job anywhere.”

Selena (1971–1995) Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

Selena at School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRhbKhD4gPI

“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Source: Live Your Dreams

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”

Richard Belzer (1944) American actor and comedian

“You can do anything when it's not real.
When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: Getting the Girl

“When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.”

Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician

Quoted in News.com.au, "Abbott OK being a 'lame, gay, churchy loser'" in news.com.au from all angles http://web.archive.org/web/20090829085019/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25992545-421,00.html, August 28 2009.
2009

“Well, here you get to be a writer when there's absolutely nothing else you can do.”

Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer

"The Art of Fiction No. 11" (1955)
Context: I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that geographically he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer. The thing is that here you get to be a writer differently. I mean, a writer like Sartre decides, like any professional man, when he's fifteen, sixteen years old, that instead of being a doctor he's going to be a writer. And he absorbs the French tradition and proceeds from there. Well, here you get to be a writer when there's absolutely nothing else you can do. I mean, I don't know of any writers here who just started out to be writers, and then became writers. They just happen to fall into it.

“You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.”

Poppy Z. Brite (1967) Novelist, short story writer, food writer

Source: Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories

“GIVE, even when you know you can get nothing back.”

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