Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.
Tom Krause
Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul Ii
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Werner Von Braun
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Cameron
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
Minna Antrim
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Arnold Palmer
I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.
Mexican Proverb
And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? --High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
Joan Rivers
A thick skin is a gift from God.
Konrad Adenauer
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Alice Walker
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Mark Twain
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak
The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.
Dave Anderson
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
Edgar Lee Masters
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
Oprah Winfrey
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
Mary Sarton
Gifts are like hooks.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
They're there for support. We have signs, and we bring the dancers gifts.
Linda Worley
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Antisthenes
The weather can be devastating (for retailers), especially if it's too dangerous for people to get out, or if people are already on the fence about buying more gifts.
George Rosenbaum
This year, the gifts literally took up almost an entire floor.
Lindy Crews
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
We don't normally publicize gifts. It's something we keep extremely private.
John Grisham
He taught us that family and friends are gifts to be treasured. He also taught us that we should work as if everything depended on us, and pray as if everything depended on God.
Paul Dwyer
Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.
Joseph Butler
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
They hadn't opened their gifts yet. They were waiting for him to come in.
Donna Lamkin
Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
Vanna Bonta
When my dad was alive, he would give them to the kids. People didn't have a lot of money, so they did this for gifts.
Holly Hunter
Gifts make slaves.
Levi Strauss
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Peggy Noonan
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
St. Francis Of Assisi
It's definitely time to get those one-of-a-kind gifts.
Rachel Hicks
There are real questions about her, about whether she has the intellectual gifts needed for the court.
John Fortier
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder
Not the best of gifts, not the best way to transport it, either.
Philip Cook
We think the heart of the problem is there's no enforcement. There's no one watching to see is anyone getting gifts or not.
Mary Boyle
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
Sure a car and computer are great gifts, but they also are necessities.
Janet White
Each day provides its own gifts.
African American Proverb
We didn't know where to draw a line. We thought it was much better to say no gifts.
Dr. Troyen Brennan
Now the Legislature has said it is clear that the law against gifts never envisioned covering this kind of stuff at conferences. That's our perspective, and we'll make that case to the [ethics] commission.
Mark Herron
We can get nice gifts for the kids.
Jack Sheehan
These are all truly gifts of love that you have given to those in our community.
Diane Plotzke
Every kid got a gift, and moms got gifts to wrap and put under the tree.
Debbie Andrews
Our gift cards are used as Christmas gifts and are especially popular as gifts from parents to students.
Tom Williams
Often times for very large gifts, there (are) naming rights attached.
Frank Whitlatch
You need to be the change you want to see in the world. You are talented, capable and energetic. You are gifts.
Kelly Thompson
The community has really come together to help our family with gifts and donations for Ethan.
Maria Rodriguez
On the gifts that God has given us and our great nation.
Ward Grant
'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
Carolyn Wells
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Barbara Smith
It's a blessing. It's like always when I was a kid, I would say, 'I want this, I want that' as far as gifts go, but this is the biggest gift I have ever had.
Charles Johnson
The trips mentioned in the indictment were business travel and were not gifts.
Mary Stillinger
(People with ADD) need constant variability. There are gifts to that. When people find a niche, in a career or calling, they flourish.
Jon Thomas
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
William Randolph Hearst
It's clear that voluntary disclosure is not working and even small gifts can influence behavior.
Dr. Troyen Brennan
We are very concerned, however, that when we accept gifts, we run the risk of creating an inequitable system.
Robert Brady
One couple drove all the way from Morris on Christmas to bring us gifts.
Joyce Majewski
They wanted to give them to us, but a state agency can't accept gifts.
Lea Stokes
I challenge each member of the council to donate a month of their (council) salary to pay for the gifts.
Frank Coccho
It's customary to make charitable contributions to the poor and to send gifts of food to one's friends.
Jacob Adler
It's one of South Africa's great gifts to the world.
John Samuel
People with unusual gifts sometimes have unusual profiles.
Phil Smith
We feel like kids at Christmas, with a lot of gifts.
Pierre Even
Because of the privacy laws, we were not able to give the gifts to the children directly.
Shannon Smith
And approximately 15 million of the funds comes from deferred gifts-estate gifts, etc. most of which will go to the endowment.
Pat Taylor
There is cancer research going on that we feel is viable, and through gifts like this, it will fund that research.
Chuck Reed
The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
Medgar Evers
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
All we need is more disclosure, and we can rely on the public to make the decision about whether gifts are inappropriate.
Ross Miller
Seeing these kids wrapping gifts for us has been the best part.
Renee Fitzgerald
He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.
Donald Demayo
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
You feel the electricity and the energy. We are giving something to them -- our gifts -- and they are giving something back to us -- their appreciation. And it's a beautiful exchange. That's why I'm a performer.
Debra Smith
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