Quotes About Gift

I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.

Orma had given me a timepiece that emitted blasphemy-inducing chirps at whatever early hour I specified.

Seks is geen ruilhandel, het is een schenkeconomie.

You Have a Gift, and It Is Immensely Valuable

life was a precious gift, meant to be opened and savored, not tucked away on a shelf, waiting for something that might not ever come.

In 1574, when the third Guru's daughter was getting married to one who would become the fourth Guru, the Mughal emperor gave, as a wedding gift, an area of land in a place in the Bari doab not yet called Amritsar.

Union with God of this depth is totally unattainable by our own efforts; it is a gift that only God can give; we are totally dependent on His grace for progress in the spiritual life. Yet

She urges us to realize that to be united with the Lord in such a manner is a great gift and privilege. Her advice: be careful, be appreciative, be faithful, be a friend.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Though I am not a fan of TV - it's mankind's greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I'll be in bed so much at the end. TV will be one of my last links to the outside world.

A little gift from her mother who made Linda what she was –a damn survivor.

It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

It would just be nice to buy my dad a caravan.

Faith is a gift. Some feel like they were never blessed with it, others just casually let it fall away.

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.

I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.

If I've learned anything, it's to live in the moment, and the gift that cancer gives you is, you just assume I'm only here today, and I am going to seize that moment and cherish it.

When I was a kid and Christmas was coming up, my dad would ask me what I wanted, and I always said a motorbike. I kept asking for one, and he said it was too dangerous and bought me a go-kart instead.