Gift Quotes
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Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.
Sarah Kay
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Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex
Rei Kawakubo
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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
John Lennon The Beatles
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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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Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
Mother Teresa
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My horse needs to be quiet enough not to draw my attention. You want your horse always aware of you. Be aware of your horse! Fidgeting? Direct that! Think of it as a gift. Do something with that energy; redirect it or it will be a negative. Don't let your horse check-out. A horse wants peace. Trade movement for peace.
Buck Brannaman
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
Erica Jong
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
Eva Zeisel
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Courage is the gift of character.
Euripides
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What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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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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Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown
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Honesty can be a dirty gift.
Colin Cotterill
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When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.
Joyce DeWitt
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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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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
Homer
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
George Eliot
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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
Elizabeth Bear
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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.
Sean Penn
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
George Bernard Shaw
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
Gavin de Becker
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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.
Elizabeth Goudge