249 Gifts Quotes for You to Enjoy

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion. Sharon Salzberg

Knowledge Experience Compassion Power Our Gifts Someone Also Vulnerability Offer Experienced Depth Us Who Trauma Universal

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts. Wendell Berry

Life World Our Gifts Only Sacred Conditional Places Belief

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office. Barack Obama

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What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. Charles Spurgeon

Death Good Heart Trials Hardships Thought Husband Be True Too Our Gifts Willing Find Seems Through Gladness Feeble True Comfort Encouraging Itself May Endure Far Then Lowly Even Jesus Bringing Assisted Beloved

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. Fredrik Bajer

Great Character Spiritual Man Result Power Other Others Gifts Great Man Qualities Because However His Influence Mean Who Deserves

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. Max Lucado

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great People Gifts Easy Find Never Balanced Symmetrical

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. Robert Schumann

God Best Nature Joy Tears Speechless Our Alike Gifts Given Vast Weeping Almighty Name Like Ecstasy She Sorrow Dry How Reverence Pray Handkerchief Quiet Hearts May Which Eternal Us Turns Teaches Fills Resignation

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents. Sean Covey

Gifts Find Give Parent Talents Greatest Greatest Gifts Child Them Help

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird. Barry Ritholtz

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective. Dan Chaon

Life Great Perspective Picture Live Gifts Would Would-Be More Empathy Like Another Than Means Humans Imaginative

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day. Don Rickles

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One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. George Takei

Work Become Trek Colleagues Gifts Lifelong Friends Professional Star Star Trek

A woman's gifts will make room for her. Hattie McDaniel

Woman Will Gifts Make Room Her

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Ivan Illich

Attitude Good Acceptance People Somebody Believe Gifts Seem Only Compulsion Share Leads Blessings Always Ultimately North Trait American May Should Choose Whom Actually Bombing Innate

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position. Jennie Finch

Yourself Amazing Try Shine Lost Field Softball Others Everyone Way Slightly Gifts Ability Perfect Sport Makes Discover Get Different Them Your Comparing Position

Christmas is my favorite holiday because you spend time with family. I love the decorations, the music, and buying gifts for people. Everything about Christmas is the best. Jessica Sanchez

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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. Johannes Tauler

Love Soul Other Everyone Guests Gifts Must Finds Remain Entry Outside He Occupied His Offering Often Cannot Gain Which Turn Therefore Away Things Desire

The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use. Les Brown

Best Those Gifts Only Put Cherish Use

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored. Rosemary Mahoney

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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. Saint Patrick

Wicked Gifts High Most

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Virgil

Fear Gifts Greeks Even Bring

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's? Abdullah II of Jordan

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