Quotes about gift

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“Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?”

“The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.”

“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.”

“Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.”

“Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn’t fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don’t give away free tapestries.”

“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.”

“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”

“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.”

“Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.”

“Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.”

“I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.”

“I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift."
Gross," said Clary. "Must you?"
Simon grinned. "I must.”

“One of the greatest gifts you can give is
your undivided attention.”

“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”

“Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.”

“She has the gift of accepting her life.”

“It's his mother's birthday? But he didn't tell me. I don't have a card. I don't have a gift. How could he do this to me?

Men are crap.”

“Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.”

“Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.”

“I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.”

“… a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.”

“To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.”

“She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”

“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.”

“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

“Life is a gift…
Life is a test…
Life is temporary assignment….”

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”

“Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me.”

“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention… the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”

“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.”

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”

“Forgiveness is God's greatest gift”

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

“Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.”

“It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.”

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

“Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.”

“Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”

“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”

“You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.”

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

“She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.”

“Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.”

“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”

“We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”

“Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.”

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

“Caliph Vathek and his dark horde
Are bound for Hell, you won’t be bored!
Your faith in me will be restored—
Unless this token you find untoward
And my poor gift you have ignored.”

“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”

“A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.”

“When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.”

“The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.”

“I narrowed my eyes at it. Ming-de’s little gift, I assumed. “You look better in color,” I snapped.
He sent me a sultry look over his shoulder. “Really? Most women think I look better in nothing at all.”

“She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”

“His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love. He held nothing back, giving everything, exposing everything.”

“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”

“Although we didn't invite Lucinda, she arrived anyway-with a gift.
"No need," Char and I chimed together.
"Remember when you were a squirrel," Mandy said.”

“Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance.
-Doc”

“At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient… only the universe rearranging itself.”

“The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions.”

“I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice.”

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don't love to be loved, we love to love”

“Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way, when they came, the offered themselves as a gift.”

“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.”

“Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like
diamonds, was forever.”

“Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.”

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

“Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth.”

“She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.”

“Just between you and me and the lamppost, Dylan could easily begirl's perfect other half. If I didn't alreadya perfect other half, I might have been thrilled with the gift of my very own gorgeous mutant.”

“The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.”

“It’s a gift. (Artemis)
Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)”

“They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected… but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.”

“This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”

“A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.”

“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”

“Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.”

“What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.”

“I'll bet he was myrrh. Bastard, he brings the cheapest gift and now he wants to sodomize me.”

“Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn."
"Yeah, it's a gift.”

“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”

“What sucks the worst is… this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”

“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”

“Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.”

“When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

“Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.”