Judith McNaught Quotes

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

Integration is a give and take.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

You have to give to be able to receive.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

I hope I use them more than they use me.

I never wanted something from somebody without being able to kind of reciprocate, I guess.

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

The idea of life is to give and receive.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.

You can only breathe out if you breathe in.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.