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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
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I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

Virgil
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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
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Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Pope John Paul Ii
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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
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The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. -Julia Cameron
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Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Minna Antrim
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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
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Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. -Arnold Palmer
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.

Mexican Proverb
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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
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. -Joan Rivers
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A thick skin is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer
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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
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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. -Alice Walker
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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
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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak
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The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. -Dave Anderson
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

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

Virgil
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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
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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
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. -Matthew Arnold
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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
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Gifts are like hooks.

Marcus Valerius Martialis
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It's not uncommon to get seven-figure gifts from names in this community that aren't household names. -Don Lang
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They're there for support. We have signs, and we bring the dancers gifts.

Linda Worley
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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes
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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
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