Quotes About Gift

For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake -with our minds, hearts, and hands- to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea -that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Per questo le aveva regalato quella moneta: come una specie di portafortuna per tutti e due. Gliel'aveva regalata - riflette Mr. Silvera mentre il campanile suona l'una e mezzo - come una di quelle monete che si gettano nelle fontane di lontani paesi, di lontane città, con la speranza di tornare. Ma l'aveva anche avvertita che era falsa.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God.

The curtains stir. There you are on the bed, like a gift. Like a touchable dream.

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." —ÉMILE ZOLA

Give them the gift of the growth mindset. Create an environment that teaches the growth mindset to the adults and children in your life, especially the ones who are targets of negative stereotypes.

understand the kind of mindset that could turn a failure into a gift.

Michael must have started with a special ability, but, for me, the most outstanding feature is his extreme love of learning and challenge. His parents could not tear him away from his demanding activities. The same is true for every prodigy Winner describes. Most often people believe that the "gift" is the ability itself. Yet what feeds it is that constant, endless curiosity and challenge seeking.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

But, the thing is that when you are a survivor, which fine, I reluctantly agree that I am—and who over 40 isn't?—when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

Sometimes it's good to give people something they're not expecting.

No, Captain Madsen, you don't regret having had a child simply because you lose it. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death.

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

Não, capitão Madsen, não nos arrependemos de ter tido uma criança só porque a perdemos. Ter uma criança não é um negócio que se faz com a vida. Como eu disse, uma criança é um dom. E o que fica depois de uma criança desaparecer é a recordação dos anos que pôde viver. Não a sua morte.

Christ surrendered the secret of Himself to each one of us when He gave us His Body. In Holy Communion this surrender of the secret of Himself goes on. "With desire," He said, "have I desired this hour." The hour when He was to consecrate bread, in order that not only to the whole race would He give His Spirit, but to each individual, the gift of Himself.

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What is it but the telescope of truth? Which strips the distance of its fantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real!

What a miracle it is, this gift of time! Little marks on paper, the children of consciousness, sent down to us through the years.

Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow to great to be borne, the angel takes us.

Many have served Him of Many Faces through the centuries, but only a few of His servants have been women. Women bring life into the world. We bring the gift of death. No one can do both.