#gift

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. ↗

— Walter Anderson

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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music. ↗

— Randy Bachman

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I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it. ↗

— Erykah Badu

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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. ↗

— Erykah Badu

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Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists. ↗

— Kathleen Battle

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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual. ↗

— James Belushi

#across #beautiful #body #chair #collective

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak. ↗

— George Best

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Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself. ↗

— Brother Yun

#life

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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