“Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53)
(Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.)”
― Huston Smith, Tibetan Book of the Dead
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
“I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”
― Henri Matisse
“The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.”
― Craig Ferguson
“And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.”
― Charles Dudley Warner
“There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.”
― Criss Jami
“Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
“Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.”
― Anthony Robbins
“I don’t know what’s in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all. ”
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense
“Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?"
Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
"That's Hercules," I said. "But how-"
"Never question a gift," Hermes chided. "This is a collector's item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season."
"Hercules Busts Heads?"
"Great show." Hermes sighed. "Back before Hephaestus-TV was all reality programming. Of course, the thermos would be worth much more if I had the whole lunch box-”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
“Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.”
― Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup
“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”
― Morgan Matson, Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Please, allow me a moment to put my penis back where it belongs. I should never have taken it out of its plastic wrapping before you’d finished opening all your other gifts. ”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“If you give me a gift, it’d be insulting to pay you, because I’d be denying you the gift of giving. So my gift to you is to accept your gift, thereby allowing you to enjoy the gift of giving.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33
“LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ”
― M.G. Wells
“I bought you a box of karate chops, but it could be dangerous to open it with a knife. And cats are masters at getting into boxes, so here, try opening it with my portable meow maker. ”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
― Jim Valvano
“My trash can got stolen five times. Finally the owner just let me have it. ”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
“The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”
― Esther Hicks
“Yesterday was the history, tomorrow is the mystery, but today is a gift, that's why it's called present.”
― Anonymous
“You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.”
― Christine E. Schulze, The Silver Stag
“How little we understand
of the gifts we have been given
or the shape of the path
we took to reach our salvation.”
― Harley King, What I Was Meant To Forget
“Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself”
― Jean Anouilh
“The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.”
― Baltasar Gracián
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“Some men are so willing to know their future,
but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”
― Cormac McCarthy
“النعمة لا تُكتنز ، وليس ثمة مصرف نودعه ما نتلقاه من هذه البركات ، فهي حتمًا في حكم المفقود الذي لا يُرَدّ”
― Paulo Coelho, Maktub
“Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves. ”
― Jarod Kintz
“One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.
He was the Fourth to follow the Star.
His gift was a secret.
The rest of his journey is unknown.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
“Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction
“It's so tempting to resist a little gift
when you're expecting the otherwise.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
“This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you."
He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?"
She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win."
Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out."
"And you'll know?"
"You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
“Gift ain't what you take by effort,
as swag ain't what you worthy have.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this:
I have a responsibility I need to fathom.
I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.”
― Michelle Dicinoski, Electricity For Beginners
“The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama
“Gift giving is a true art.
1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to give the gift.
2. You need to know what they truly want.
3. You must be able to give it to them.
Anything less is a symptom of varying degrees, on your part, of ignorance, distance, or insult.
But if you cannot afford the right gift, telling the person what you would do if you could, justifies everything—as you present that not-so-perfect substitute.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer. The words were set to a fine old air -- in themselves they were simple and sweet: perhaps, when read, they wanted force; when well sung, they wanted nothing. Shirley sang them well: she breathed into the feeling, softness, she poured round the passion, force: her voice was fine that evening; its expression dramatic: she impressed all, and charmed one.
On leaving the instrument, she went to the fire, and sat down on a seat -- semi-stool, semi-cushion: the ladies were round her -- none of them spoke. The Misses Sympson and the Misses Nunnely looked upon her, as quiet poultry might look on an egret, an ibis, or any other strange fowl. What made her sing so? They never sang so. Was it proper to sing with such expression, with such originality -- so unlike a school girl? Decidedly not: it was strange, it was unusual. What was strange must be wrong; what was unusual must be improper. Shirley was judged.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.”
― Frederick William Faber
“A woman in a box—a great gift for the husband who has everything. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“I bought you a gift. It’s something I’ve always wanted, but I’m not quite sure you’ll like it. So if you don’t want it just tell me and I’ll be happy to keep it. After all, I’m only interested in making you happy. ”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
“Not all can believe anything they want to,
because not all have the ability to believe.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa
“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
“The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me. ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
“Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul? ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver
“Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.”
― Marian Anderson
“Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.”
― Gloria Tesch
“And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Your anger is a gift.”
― Zack de la Rocha
“Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.”
― Harley King
“Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.”
― Robert Southwell, Collected Poems: Robert Southwell SJ
“He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.”
― Laura Kelly, Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness
“Our flesh is a gift of laughter.”
― Harley King
“I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor: A Novel
“The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.”
― Bill Hybels, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
“Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
(Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.)”
― Huston Smith, Tibetan Book of the Dead
“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood and Gold
“I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.”
― Henri Matisse
“The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.”
― Craig Ferguson
“And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its
value.”
― Charles Dudley Warner
“There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.”
― Criss Jami
“Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
“Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.”
― Anthony Robbins
“I don’t know what’s in the box, but I love it. Unopened gifts contain hope. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all. ”
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense
“Hermes's eyes twinkled. "Martha, may I have the first package, please?"
Martha opened her mouth ... and kept opening it until it was as wide as my arm. She belched out a stainless steel canister-an old-fashioned lunch box thermos with a black plastic top. The sides of the thermos were enameled with red and yellow Ancient Greek scenes-a hero killing a lion; a hero lifting up Cerberus, the three-headed dog.
"That's Hercules," I said. "But how-"
"Never question a gift," Hermes chided. "This is a collector's item from Hercules Busts Heads. The first season."
"Hercules Busts Heads?"
"Great show." Hermes sighed. "Back before Hephaestus-TV was all reality programming. Of course, the thermos would be worth much more if I had the whole lunch box-”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
“Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.”
― Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup
“A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.”
― Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”
― Morgan Matson, Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Please, allow me a moment to put my penis back where it belongs. I should never have taken it out of its plastic wrapping before you’d finished opening all your other gifts. ”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“If you give me a gift, it’d be insulting to pay you, because I’d be denying you the gift of giving. So my gift to you is to accept your gift, thereby allowing you to enjoy the gift of giving.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33
“LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ”
― M.G. Wells
“I bought you a box of karate chops, but it could be dangerous to open it with a knife. And cats are masters at getting into boxes, so here, try opening it with my portable meow maker. ”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
― Jim Valvano
“My trash can got stolen five times. Finally the owner just let me have it. ”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
“The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”
― Esther Hicks
“Yesterday was the history, tomorrow is the mystery, but today is a gift, that's why it's called present.”
― Anonymous
“You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song.”
― Christine E. Schulze, The Silver Stag
“How little we understand
of the gifts we have been given
or the shape of the path
we took to reach our salvation.”
― Harley King, What I Was Meant To Forget
“Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself”
― Jean Anouilh
“The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.”
― Baltasar Gracián
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“Some men are so willing to know their future,
but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”
― Cormac McCarthy
“النعمة لا تُكتنز ، وليس ثمة مصرف نودعه ما نتلقاه من هذه البركات ، فهي حتمًا في حكم المفقود الذي لا يُرَدّ”
― Paulo Coelho, Maktub
“Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves. ”
― Jarod Kintz
“One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.
He was the Fourth to follow the Star.
His gift was a secret.
The rest of his journey is unknown.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
“Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction
“It's so tempting to resist a little gift
when you're expecting the otherwise.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
“This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you."
He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew he could never explain exactly why the idea came to him. "It's the painting of a dutiful daughter," he said eventually, looking at her cautiously to see her reaction. "You want to please. You are always aware of what the person looking at this picture will think of it. Because of that you've missed something important. Does that make sense?"
She thought, then nodded. "All right," she said grudgingly and with just a touch of despair in her voice. "You win."
Julien grunted. "Have another go, then. I shall come back and come back until you figure it out."
"And you'll know?"
"You'll know. I will merely get the benefit of it.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
“Gift ain't what you take by effort,
as swag ain't what you worthy have.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“There is nothing I can give to the lost, except this:
I have a responsibility I need to fathom.
I have a sorrow I cannot weigh.”
― Michelle Dicinoski, Electricity For Beginners
“The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama
“Gift giving is a true art.
1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to give the gift.
2. You need to know what they truly want.
3. You must be able to give it to them.
Anything less is a symptom of varying degrees, on your part, of ignorance, distance, or insult.
But if you cannot afford the right gift, telling the person what you would do if you could, justifies everything—as you present that not-so-perfect substitute.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer. The words were set to a fine old air -- in themselves they were simple and sweet: perhaps, when read, they wanted force; when well sung, they wanted nothing. Shirley sang them well: she breathed into the feeling, softness, she poured round the passion, force: her voice was fine that evening; its expression dramatic: she impressed all, and charmed one.
On leaving the instrument, she went to the fire, and sat down on a seat -- semi-stool, semi-cushion: the ladies were round her -- none of them spoke. The Misses Sympson and the Misses Nunnely looked upon her, as quiet poultry might look on an egret, an ibis, or any other strange fowl. What made her sing so? They never sang so. Was it proper to sing with such expression, with such originality -- so unlike a school girl? Decidedly not: it was strange, it was unusual. What was strange must be wrong; what was unusual must be improper. Shirley was judged.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.”
― Frederick William Faber
“A woman in a box—a great gift for the husband who has everything. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
“I bought you a gift. It’s something I’ve always wanted, but I’m not quite sure you’ll like it. So if you don’t want it just tell me and I’ll be happy to keep it. After all, I’m only interested in making you happy. ”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
“Not all can believe anything they want to,
because not all have the ability to believe.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa
“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
“The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me. ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.
“Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul? ”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver
“Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.”
― Marian Anderson
“Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.”
― Gloria Tesch
“And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Your anger is a gift.”
― Zack de la Rocha
“Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.”
― Harley King
“Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.”
― Robert Southwell, Collected Poems: Robert Southwell SJ
“He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.”
― Laura Kelly, Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness
“Our flesh is a gift of laughter.”
― Harley King
“I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor: A Novel
“The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.”
― Bill Hybels, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
“Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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