Quotes About Gifts

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.

You will come to learn, as we have in our long lives, that what is given freely is often despised. It is only when we pay for something that we treasure it.

Accepting all that is given to me and all that is taken away. Recognizing that even loss and pain are gifts.

I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living -- the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you might forget them, or doubt they exist, God does not forget and He will show them to you. As soon as your gifts are dedicated to His work, they will blossom. Chains that might have held you back for years will dissolve. And you will feel free. You will learn that your spirit is bigger than your circumstances, as soon as you put your spirit first.

If our prayer is "Dear God, please use me to be of service," then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God's love.

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.  If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting.  You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.

For is there any human sorrow so great that the blessing of mere daylight on the earth does not far exceed? We mortals are spoilt and petted children — the more gifts we have the more we crave; and when we burn or wound ourselves by our own obstinacy or carelessness, we are ungratefully prone to blame the Supreme Benefactor for our own faults.

Conversation is an exchange of gifts. Native American tribal wisdom teaches that when you encounter a person on your life path, you must seek to find out what gifts you have for one another so that you may exchange them before going your separate ways. This seems true even of daily encounters with those we know well. We come into one another's presence bearing whatever harvest of experience the day has offered, and we foster relationship by making a gift of what we have received.

Beauty is a conversation between humankind and reality, and we are an essential part of it, bringing to it our singular gifts of reflection and creation.

Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace. 1 PETER 4:10

And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?

Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.

Look, bimba—In my country we have a—how you say?—a proverb. Amare, cantare, mangiare.—Loving, singing, eating—these are God's three gifts. You don' need more.

follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. What did that mean? Love. Aye, yet one must find it before one could follow it. As for spiritual gifts, they would undoubtedly be agreeable possessions though of limited use if they led only to prophesying.

Numai moartea nu cere daruri dintre zei.

Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man