#gift

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be. ↗

— Harley King

#gifts #story #change

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#community #competition #giftedness #modern #printing-press

Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you'll find it's a gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Michelle Aguilar

#contagious #courage #fear #gift #courage

No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way, ↗

— Tama Kieves

#gifts #guilt #obligation #shame #work

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. ↗

— Ingrid Betancourt

#gifts #death

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#future #gift #past #present #quotes

Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. “I will stay and Michael can go.”  Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn’t let him die. ↗

— Willow Cross

#death #liz #michael #the-dark-gifts #vampire

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#gifts #leadership #reading #success #talent

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure. ↗

— Harley King

#gifts #gods #pleasure #dreams

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #expose #extraordinary #gift #heart