Gifts Quotes
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What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
Jeff Bezos
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You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
Georgette Heyer
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
Sallust
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All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.
Brenda Shaughnessy
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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.
Gautama Buddha
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.
Gay Hendricks
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
Sarah Dessen
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One of the greatest gifts we’ve been given out of this administrative nightmare is that marginalized communities are coming together and standing up for each other.
Sarah Kate Ellis
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We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
Satish Kumar
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Acknowledge your gifts and be grateful to the source. Because if you know from whom you’re receiving, you can always go back for more.
Noah Weinberg
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There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
Anthony Robbins
