Brennan Manning Quotes

A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.

Anyone we come in contact with, we either offer them life, or we drain them.

Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life.

We began this process, and fantastic things happened — to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words!

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

If I walk in the house, and I greet my wife, and I give her a hug, kiss her on the cheek, and I say to her, "Honey, how'd your day go," and I listed to how her day went. If I say, "Is there anything I can do to help you," and she tells me, "Honey, if you could peel the potatoes," or whatever, I have influenced my wife in a very positive way.

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Even if I'm exhausted, I always try to go into a show with a smile on my face. It's always good to try and bring the energy up. If I'm in a bad mood, people are going to act bad. The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

Give out what you most want to come back.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

When we Consistently Generate Thoughts of Giving ... we Attract the Energy of Giving Back to Us

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.