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

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

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

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

John Owen

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

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

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

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Les Brown

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

It's not uncommon to get seven-figure gifts from names in this community that aren't household names.

Don Lang

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

His gifts were being passionate about this ministry and being able to articulate it very clearly.

Bob Scott

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

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Euripides

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

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

Homer

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

We're always happy to receive gifts of money, which is the most flexible kind of gift. We can buy food with it at probably as cheap a cost as can be.

Bob Bowen

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

I catch them, I buy them and people give them to me as gifts.

Don Ehlen

We are very concerned, however, that when we accept gifts, we run the risk of creating an inequitable system.

Robert Brady

We got some gifts. You don't expect Perm-ian to make mistakes, and you have to take advantage of them if you get them. I thought that Ashton did well, and she and (catcher) Emily Dixon communicated very well.

Shay Cox

And the worms make great gifts for your friends. Especially if they're fishermen.

Al Miller

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

But the other two $1 million gifts were totally unanticipated.

Joel Wohl

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

Some people come in to buy pieces for themselves, but a lot of our items are bought as gifts.

Ye Ling

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