Jonathan Evison Quotes

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

It could have been me. And just the hope and prayers that, you know, if, if the shoes were switched, that you know, Laci would do the same thing for me.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

Every time you get something, give something away.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. Because of Paula, I don't cling to anything anymore. Now I like to give much more than to receive.

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

I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward.

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

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

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

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.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.