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• Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Gift, God

  Tags in Forgetfulness, Bestowed, Compensation, Conscience, Debt

• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

  George MacDonald

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Gem, Cast, Into, Would, Friend, Give, Giving, Heart, Thought, Even, Flood, Should, Instead, Loving, Angel

• A thick skin is a gift from God.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Topics in Gift, God

  Tags in Thick, Skin, Determination

• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Gift, Knowledge

  Tags in Fantasy, Imagination, Mind

• He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Topics in Gift, Love

  Tags in Purity, Consider

• I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Size, Coach

• The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Gift, Memory, Wedding

  Tags in Then, Marriage

• 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

  Topics in Art, Gift

  Tags in Heaven, Music, Man

• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Gift, Knowledge

  Tags in Fantasy, Philosophy, Imagination

• Here’s what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We’re given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

  Mike Ditka

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Believe, Tell

• However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Talent

• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it’s the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that’s weighed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Spirit

• Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

  Suzanne Somers

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Yourself, Give, Forgiveness

• I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Exceptional, Except, Childhood, Unhappy

• These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Intellect, Cunning, Inhabitants, Sharp

• The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Delight, Attention

• Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Faith

• A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

  Topics in Gift, Italian Proverbs

  Tags in Present

• I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It’s not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it’s a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Creator, Work Hard, Appreciate

• Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

  John Jay Chapman

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Benevolence, Teachers and teaching