Mia Farrow Quotes

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours.

I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things.

You've got to give away what you love.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

When you lose everything, then you have something. It's exactly the opposite because everything that you have, it's not really yours. What is yours, you don't need to earn. It's yours by right.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

No man can lose what he never had.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Give up as much as you're willing to receive back and give yourself, if that makes any sense. Whatever that is, don't expect more from a person than what you're willing to give, but give it knowing that you're giving it - it's been given, so don't expect anything else.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

I declined it. As we enjoy great advantage from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.