Quotes About Gift

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

It's a gift, that's all. And when you get a gift, you feel good. Doesn't matter if you haven't got a gift ready to give in return. Something as fine as love from someone as nice as you—well, knowing about it means a lot. It can mean everything.

But, really, why does anyone create? You feel a...a restlessness inside, a need to make something new, something no one has ever seen before. You want to add to the beauty and the richness of the world with a gift, an offering that is uniquely yours. It's an act of selfishness and generosity, all rolled into one.

The capacity to control your dissociative capabilities is very powerful. It allows people to be good at reflective cognition. It allows people to have intense focus on a specific task. Hypnosis, flow, being "in the zone"-all of these are examples of the trance state that dissociation allows. People who learn to control when and how they go into a trance state have a gift…be careful about labeling dissociation as a pathology…It can be an incredible strength.

God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift, and a new chance to try again.

Every person is a precious gift, and we are all like little children who yearn for acceptance, safety, and unconditional love.

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

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

In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

Mrs. Puller gave him a last-minute gift, a bathrobe. He thanked her tenderly, but growled to his staff: "I've got the world's greatest wife, but my God, what do you do when she sends you off to war with a new red flannel bathrobe?" He had it secretly stowed away before boarding his transport, the U.S.S. Fuller.

a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man;

Somewhat melancholy happiness of offering an object one likes, and that one had bought for oneself!

Finding him absent, they broke into the cave; the men tried to persuade Odysseus to steal Polyphemus' cheese and animals and then make a quick escape. Odysseus insisted on staying. When the Cyclops came home, Odysseus demanded a gift;

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

And Americans were—before the Vietnam War, before the Iraq wars—the darlings of everyone everywhere. On a second world trip a decade later, on which I took students for academic credit, the most treasured gift we could give was a John F. Kennedy half-dollar. There

Amy, Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one.

On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.