Gift Quotes
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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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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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Every day is a gift. Remember to unwrap it with joy and gratitude.
Katrina Mayer
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
Eva Zeisel
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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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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
Brennan Manning
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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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Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex
Rei Kawakubo
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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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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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Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
John Lennon The Beatles
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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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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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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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Courage is the gift of character.
Euripides
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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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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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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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My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
Antonio Porchia
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The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
Michael Jackson
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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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Honesty can be a dirty gift.
Colin Cotterill
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I felt God's love, and that was a great gift.
Steven Ford
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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
Homer