Harry Browne Quotes

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

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

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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.

He who gives love, receives love.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?'

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

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

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.