Gift Quotes
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Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
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Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!
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The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
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I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
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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.
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I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
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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.
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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
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Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
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Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
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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.
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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.
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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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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
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I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.
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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.
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Poincaré [was the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.
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I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.
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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
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Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.
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I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
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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.
