“The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.”
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Elizabeth Hardwick14
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Attention: the world of entertainment illuminates, excites… it destroys.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Attenzione: il mondo dello spettacolo illumina, emoziona... distrugge.
Source: prevale.net
“One of the greatest gifts you can give is
your undivided attention.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
“Believing in yourself is the greatest gift you can give to your life.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale <br class="br">Original: (it) Credere in te stesso è il regalo più grande che puoi fare alla tua vita.
Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
Variant: The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence
“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”
Esther Hicks (1948) American writer
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician
As quoted in "The Abelardian Doctrine Of The Atonement" (1892), published in Doctrine and Development : University Sermons (1898) by Hastings Rashdall, p. 138