“Ask and you shall receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive”

“You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need”

“[Connecting is] a constant process of giving and receiving -- of asking for and receiving help.”

“When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.”

“Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.”

“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”

“2194. He that is too proud to ask, is too good to receive.”

“Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.”

“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.”
qualis quisque sit scies, si quemadmodum laudet, quemadmodum laudetur aspexeris.

“Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy of Macedonia has received you hospitably.”