The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts. . . Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.
All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.
It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within. . . and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.
