#gift

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53) (Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.) ↗

— Huston Smith

#generosity #gift #giving #non-attachment #practice

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun. ↗

— James Lafferty

#any #beach #exchange #fireworks #fourth

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate. ↗

— Guy Lafleur

#appreciate #around #gift #involved #kind

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#earth #gift #given #god #heaven

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#culture #gift #god #individualistic #narcissist

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#effortlessly #gift #i #me #melodic

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#gift #i #i believe #i believe that #live

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person. ↗

— Bai Ling

#basically #gift #i #me #person

I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#gift #god #good #i #know

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#appreciative #break #child #death #fondle