Quotes About Gift

Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

I understand the psychology of the business. I understand who I am and I know how I interact with other people, but that's a gift, the storytelling. Not everybody has that gift and it's kind of like the way I work.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

It was beer, not fire, that Prometeus stole from the gods and brought to man.

You couldn't ask more of a miracle than it was willing to give.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

And if you say you're not creative, look at how much you're missing out on just because you've told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we're born with that some people don't cultivate, that they don't realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives.

A. H. Almaas: "Ultimately, your gift to the world is being who you are. It is both your gift and your fulfillment.

Leonard Cohen, even though when I met him I was too tongue-tied to say anything. Anyway, I've given away a number of copies of his Book of Longing, since it articulates a sense of the compassionate

Your time is limited, so it's best to spend it with people who will make you feel like you made the most of your gift of today.

Cynicism is a disease that robs people of the gift of life.

Fifty Shades of Chicken That's the title of Shaun's "most-gifted" book. Totally serious. I assumed it would be a complete joke, but it has nearly 700 reviews on Amazon and a 4.8-star average.

Here we find a parallel to Luther's disdain of reason. In its legitimate sphere reason is the highest gift of God, but the moment it transgresses into theology it becomes the "Devil's Whore." So, too, with free will. Understood as the God-given capacity to make ordinary decisions, to carry out one's responsibilities in the world, free will remains intact. What it cannot do is effect its own salvation.

Life is a gift. If we don't live it well, we are being ungrateful. And we have to love the ones who journey with us." (A Nail Through the Heart)

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it

For a man like Bob Marley, life and Jah were one and the same. Marley saw Jah as being the gift of existence; that is, he believed that he, Bob Marley, was in some way eternal, and that he would never be duplicated. He believed that the singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. He believed the process of that struggle becomes, in time, the truth.

Education is the gift that keeps on giving, providing the skills and knowledge necessary to tackle life's challenges and pursue one's dreams.

Tom Junior invented the story that his father had won $750,000 in the California State Lottery. There was no lottery 'win' but Thomas did give Tom Junior money to start a flower shop and bought Samantha a car.

On my sixteenth birthday my parents tried to surprise me with a car, but they missed.

I too often took golf's capriciousness as its most maddening vice, but if I adjusted my stance and looked from another angle, its fickleness was the game's greatest gift.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. It's a never ending study, once we have learned to love, we will learn to live. Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me!'