Giving

Famous quotes containing the word giving:

“Healthy parenting is nothing if not a process of empowerment. As we help to raise our children’s self-esteem, we also increase their personal power. When we encourage them to be confident, self-reliant, self-directed, and responsible individuals, we are giving them power.”
—Louise Hart (20th century)

“Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)