Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

I get excited about people doing stuff, and to whom I want to give. And I believe in giving back to people who have helped me and my family in the past. The key is getting excited.

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life.

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.

Chelsea gave me everything that I needed, and now I have time to give back all that Chelsea give me.

If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.

I've always had to make sure I pay my blessings forward.

From where I came from, the way I was raised, when somebody does something for you, you always want to give something back to them.

Napoli gave me so much, but I also gave something back - the best I could.

It's easy to give back to people who are so genuine and kind.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.