#gifts

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift." Clara: "What?" Tucker: "You. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

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Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had. ↗

— Steven Tyler

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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. ↗

— Jean Vanier

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Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. ↗

— Democritus

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