“Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Quaestiones de veritate disputatae q 24, art. 15, ad 2
“[Connecting is] a constant process of giving and receiving -- of asking for and receiving help.”
Keith Ferrazzi (1966) American businessman and writer
Never Eat Alone
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (1900–1986) Sri Lankan Sufi leader
Questions of Life Answers of Wisdom, Vol.1 (2001)
“To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.”
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom : A Collection of 10,000 Powerful Quotations (2003) by Andy Zubko, p. 184
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order