Your voice is a gift; use it to make a difference.

I find joy in making people laugh. It’s a gift.

I buy myself a gift every year, so this year I bought everything I wanted

The greatest gift we can give to our children is a healthy planet.

Every moment is a gift.

The best gift is the gift of your time.

I think the greatest gift you can give your children is your time.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

I wasn’t the most gifted player, but I had a lot of heart.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.

The love of a mother is the greatest gift of all.

So passed away Sorrow the Undesired – that intrusive creature, that bastard gift of shameless Nature who respects not the social law; a waif to whom eternal Time had been a matter of days merely, who knew not that such things as years and centuries ever were; to whom the cottage interior was the universe, the week’s weather climate, new-born babyhood human existence, and the instinct to suck human knowledge

The prophet’s mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world – a sacred gift to man

O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow’s children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom

In a world of scripts and stages, authenticity is the actor’s greatest gift to the audience

Happiness is the gift of friends; it is born out of human relationships

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. “My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.” I stopped.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver

Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean

Freedom is such a gift.

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends

It is a great gift indeed to love who you are.

Language is our most powerful tool and our greatest gift.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind’s eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard

The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received

This blessed gift of smoking!

Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. … And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.

I never really thought of myself as someone who was gifted.

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

It is very, very important that I take them back to Ireland every year. It’s so easy to get caught up in the mass culture here. It’s important that they know they have another tradition and a heritage that is a gift to them.

In life, there are no guarantees, but taking risks is the only way to truly live.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Life is a gift, love opens it up.

Peace is our gift to each other.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son.

I won’t ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I’ll do it. But it will be on my terms.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

We who are saved find rest in Jesus. Those who are not saved will receive rest if they come to Him, for here He promises to “give” it. Nothing can be freer than a gift; let us gladly accept what He gladly gives. You are not to buy it, nor to borrow it, but to receive it as a gift.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

I am the miracle.

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

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

You have a gift that only you can give the world – that’s the whole reason you’re on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to helping others without expecting anything in return.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

Know your gifts and share them.

The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don’t ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

Your job is your skill that they can fire you from at any time. But your work is your gift. No one can take that from you.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

We were together. I forget the rest.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people’s lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.