Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

When does God make a want a need? When you think about it everyday and you journey that same path back to it, in order to experience what makes you feel special and alive.

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

I dare you to try and take this away from me.

Top 10 Deathbed Regrets:1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life other people expected of me.2. I wish I took time to be with my children more when they were growing up.3. I wish I had the courage to express my feelings, without the fear of...

Sometimes the best gifts aren’t convenient at the time.

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is...

With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self—our own unique noble purpose.

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God’s best gifts.

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there’s no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn’t fit me.

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

I thought… I thought you might…” “Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You’re not starving anymore, are you? You had a dry night’s sleep, too, and you’re no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed.

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don’t really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I’ll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth...

People think these lobbyists are somehow giving gifts and providing benefits for lawmakers, and that simply isn’t the case. If you simply eliminate the practice, it clears up the question.

pre-economy of the economy,” its zero-level, that is, exchange as the reciprocal relation of two non-productive expenditures. If the gift belongs to Master and exchange to the Servant, potlatch is the paradoxical exchange between Masters. Potlach is simultaneously the zero-level of civility, the paradoxical point at which restrained civility and obscene consumption overlap, the point...

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up...

Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht mir, sondern einem anderen Schüler, mit den Worten: “Ich werde dir deine Karriere schon verderben!” Am gleichen Tag las ich...

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

It really is something … that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn’t it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn’t we live without them? Couldn’t we earn our living and manage our affairs...

I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller’s box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. “Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

He’s tremendously talented, he’s really got some rare natural gifts. We felt really strongly about him, and it was more than how talented he was. He sees the field tremendously, he never makes the same mistake twice and he learns from all of them, and he’s a tremendous competitor that knows how to win.

There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas—that’s the rule

As long as a man has, he must give. And when he has nothing more, he is free. This freedom is far nobler than the former giving, for he no longer gives in accident but in essence, and he no longer gives one gift, but all gifts, and he no longer gives to just one...

The courage to dream, the courage to act.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.

Mungu alimpa kila mmoja wetu vipawa na vipaji vya pekee kwa ajili ya huduma yake. Kazi yake kwetu hapa duniani ni kutumia vipawa na vipaji vyetu kwa ajili ya huduma ya watu wengine. Kila mmoja wetu ana kitu fulani anachoweza kutoa kwa ajili ya mtu mwingine mwenye shida. Tunaweza kutoa pesa zetu na muda wetu...

Jesus rejoices in even the smallest gifts to His children.

If you do not achieve your God-given goals, it does not mean God has not given the power. It rather means you have taken His power for granted!

Killing another with slow, deliberate intent is a warping of the gifts that magic offers. It warps the mage in a manner he cannot repair. You cannot kill another slowly and not twist something within yourself, Alador. Remember this: magic is not without cost regardless of its wonder and magnificence.

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

I can’t feel too sorry for them. Every gift has to run out someday. Anyone but a child knows that.

Your brand resides in your dominant talent. Other talents and gifts are only there to connect you to the right people for the right choice and the right places for the right actions.

God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me

To wake up every morning is miracle. To make a good use of every day is an appreciation of miracle. To waste the entire hours of each day is ungratefulness towards a miracle already given and received!

Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

The one benefit of Alzheimer’s is that you can keep giving them the same gift over and over, and it’s always such a surprise.

What you consider gross—dead rats—I consider considerate gifts.

In this city [Palermo] . . . it’s the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.

One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It’s also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don’t feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know...

You owe it to yourself to develop the real you out of your own gifts and enlarge your territories on influence. Don’t live in your own shadow. Live in your own you!

The most important freedom is the freedom to be all you’re destined to be

You need to know the constituency you belong to…and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be “journalism”.

We handed out gifts and care packages, and some of the students went swimming with the kids.