Gift Quotes
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I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don't help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they're likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they're in grade school.
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The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.
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When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
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Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.
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Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
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A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
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I feel there's so much purpose that's left in me to share with people and I'm just ready to use my gift in the right way because I know I have a gift and it's unique and different than anybody else's. I'm supposed to do something with it and I'm happy that I know that now.
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The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.
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No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.
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The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.
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I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
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A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen.
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Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
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Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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I think it was a gift. I was very disappointed in my skate.
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As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.
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Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but touch the hem of His garment...and how much more have we than that! We can find Him, at every moment, on the altar. Be with Him there. Better than all books! Thank the Trinity over and over again for this Gift. Rest in His presence, and my guardian angel will adore Him for me. Silence.
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That's the goal, to survive your gift.
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The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.
