Gift Quotes
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The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.
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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.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!
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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.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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Some men are willing to die for their faith but will not fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us. By walking in his steps and through his atonement we can gain the greatest gift of all--eternal life--which is that kind of life of the great Eternal One, our Father in heaven.
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I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.
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My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
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Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
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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.
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Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.
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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.
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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
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My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
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We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.
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Are you right where you so desire? Give the gift of music. Now, nexrt next time and the time after that. It is always a great idea.
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
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I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.
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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.
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Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.
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I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.
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Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
