Gift Quotes
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Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
Colin Cotterill
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Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.
Elena Ferrante
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To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine
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Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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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.
Geri Larkin
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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A man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.
Brian Morton
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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.
Nikola Tesla
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To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.
Mahatma Gandhi
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This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
Ezra Taft Benson
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My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
Michael Jackson
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Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
John Ruskin
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My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
Antonio Porchia
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It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.
Ethan Hawke
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The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
Gautama Buddha
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I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
Steven Cojocaru
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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
Eric Maisel
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He walked where few others were brave enough to walk. He was concerned for others and totally unselfish. He had an attitude of gratitude and a gift of encouragement. His role as peacemaker was what set him apart. Some of you may wonder why I call him pastor instead of reverend. Well, pastor is the Latin word for shepherd. He was the good pastor ? he knew his sheep, and the sheep knew him.
John Whiting
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Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
Eugen Sandow
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Music is a precious gift of God, and like flowers, colour, fragrance, water, fire, and air, musical notes do not belong to any religion.
Amjad Ali Khan