A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
I believe that friendship is life’s most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
I’m from the future, I’m from the past, but I’m also from the present, because I’m a gift.
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.
Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa – giving the world a more human face.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
I’m going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I’m going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.
I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual… I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.
There is no greater gift than time.
When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.
I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
To be different is a gift. To be ordinary is common.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
The greatest gift is a 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.
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
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.
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it’s comforting when you’re near someone and you recognize their smell.
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.
That’s the best gift you can give to your parents – a diploma.
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.
It doesn’t matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn’t have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays.
I wake up every day and I can’t wait to go to work, and that’s a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that’s one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I’m just telling you from my heart, I’m so in love with life.
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
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