Quotes About Gift

El ayer es historia, el mañana es un misterio, el hoy es un regalo, por eso se llama presente.

Your neediness qualifies you to help others. Your neediness, offered well to someone else, can even be one of the great gifts you give to your church. You will inspire others to ask for help.

It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized you could buy a packet of cereal with a free gift and then just stick your hand in and root around in the packet until you found the free thing. It seems a much simpler way. But that took me about fifteen years to work out.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

To read is not a virtue; but to read well is an art, and an art that only the born reader can acquire. The gift of reading is no exception to the rule that all natural gifts need to be cultivated by practice and discipline; but unless the innate aptitude exist the training will be wasted. It is the delusion of the mechanical reader to think that intentions may take the place of aptitude.

It isn't that she's given me to you--it is that she's given you to yourself... Don't you see... that that's the gift you can't escape from, the debt you're pledged to acquit? Don't you see that you've never before been what she thought you, and that now, so wonderfully, she's made you into the man she loved? That's worth suffering for, worth dying for, to a woman--that's the gift she would have wished to give!

Whoever said life has anything to do with what we want or don't want? Life's a gift, Cassie. Sometimes we have to give something back.

And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious English theatre.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

Such was God's original love for man, that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him; and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of that love.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

All the power [the State] has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power.

Daughter," said the grim old Presbyterian, "you can serve God and mankind as worthily with a gift like yours as you could by going as a missionary to the heathen. God gave you the rare power to write. You would be ungrateful to Him if you neglected it. Go on with your work.

No le pida nunca nada a la vida. Espere... y algún día la vida le dará una sorpresa maravillosa.

Si la vida te dio un don, tienes que devolverle a la vida un 10%.

She had that way of looking at him that made him feel like he'd built the world for her and given it to her as a gift just that morning

I sang it as a gift to the audience, to the composer, to me. I sang it as a taunt to the Fates, too. I was weary of my fears as well as my desires, and so I sang it in simple defiance of all of it, even defying myself.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

No one has been 'worthy' to receive communion, no one has been prepared for it. At this point all merits, all righteousness, all devotions disappear and dissolve. Life comes again to us as a Gift, a free and divine gift...Everything is free, nothing is due and yet all is given. And, therefore, the greatest humility and obedience is to accept the gift, to say yes - in joy and gratitude.

but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.