Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

God ‘ s gifts are meted out according to the taker, not according to the giver.

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

The courage to dream, the courage to act.

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

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

You and me-we’ve whored together. We’ve fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.’It’s a gift.

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...

His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.

Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Her and I, we passed each other, and now she’s in my past. That’s one present I’d like to unwrap in the future.

Be grateful for everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. Our entire life is a precious gift. It’s all part of our path.

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

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!

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.

Can you ever really say you know anybody—your clone included? Still, if my clone’s birthday were coming up, I’d only shop Buy One Get One Free deals.

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”.