#gift

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#gift #god #i #i do #live

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#around #beauty #beings #everything #gift

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#bad #being #capacity #commitment #devotion

I consider everything I compose a gift. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#consider #everything #gift #i

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#gift #just #listen #present

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#gift #giving #guilt #keeps

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. ↗

— Bono

#books #dunno #ever #gift #give

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#bottle #burst #down #extraordinary #first