Gift Quotes
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Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
Bob Brookmeyer
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When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other.
George Howe Colt
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The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American churches. For grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift. All that is good is ours, not by right, but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God.
Brennan Manning
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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
William Sloane Coffin
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The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
Alan Johnson
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This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
Emmet Gowin
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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
Stephen Levine
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The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.
Steve Howey
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Imagine, to be studying and then suddenly come out of school and come into a project and quickly realize that it is a project that works really well and that the people really like. It is like, "What a nice gift life has given me, no?"
Alfonso Herrera
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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
Jonathan Swift
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
Alison Jolly
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Here's a guy Richard Nixon who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.
Harry Shearer
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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins
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I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
Steve Southerland
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I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.
Elaine de Kooning
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Every day is a gift. Remember to unwrap it with joy and gratitude.
Katrina Mayer
