Quotes of: Gifts Keyword

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Donald Sutherland

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

Donna Tartt

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

Tiger Woods

I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological diversity, their secret gifts and perils and the knowledge that you have to go through them to g...

Gossip from the Forest

We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself and, in so doing, becoming more fully alive and more effective in the world. For the hero's journey is first about taking a journey to...

Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World

In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it ...

The Sense of an Ending

I wasn’t perfect, and I made mistakes; but I learned from them and became a better person for it. I always followed my heart. And most of all, I loved — with every ounce of my being. I guess you could say the greatest love story ever written isn�...

Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love

It is true, I never stop wanting to learn the hard eucharisteo for deathbeds and dark skies and the prodigal sons. But I accept this is the way to begin, and all hard things come in due time and with practice. Yet now wisps of cheese tell me gentle t...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle. And who doesn't need a miracle like that everyday? Thanksgiving makes time. The real problem of life is ne...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Elias: Since God created man, and man created the Transformers, the Transformers are like a gift from God, Randal! Randal Graves: No sir. They are not a gift from God. They are an unholy curse from the beast we call the Desolate One. Elias: I don't r...

Clerks II

With battle-weary arms, Sheridan slugged his way across the luminous waves sending light-filled droplets splashing into the air like Fourth of July sparklers. Stumbling onto the lake’s rocky banks, he clawed desperately at the animal skin suit, yan...

Love

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Community And Growth

Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.

A Constant Heart

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.

Chosen

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Crown of Midnight

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Divergent

The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.

Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith