“To be a Jew in the twentieth century
Is to be offered a gift. If you refuse,
Wishing to be invisible, you choose
Death of the spirit, the stone insanity.
Accepting, take full life. Full agonies:
Your evening deep in labyrinthine blood
Of those who resist, fail, and resist: and God
Reduced to a hostage among hostages. The gift is torment.”

“Freedom to give full attention to what you want (vs. It being held hostage by unmanaged stuff) is the GTD promise.”

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

“Life is a gift box full of hardships and struggles”

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”

“I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune. Do you understand what I’m saying?”

“Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.”

“Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.”

“Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift.”