#gift

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. ↗

— Mary Manin Morrissey

#breath #china #day #every #every day

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#bestow #claim #freedom #gift #keep

0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#giftedness #grace #art

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#call #feel #gifted #good #good actor

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#experiences #gifts #had #i #ones

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#boring #experimental #gifted #good #involve

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. ↗

— Pindar

#affection #even #every #gift #given

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#adolescence #aside #authentic #display #experience

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#gift #marks

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. ↗