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1:Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,

2:The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. ~ Nikola Tesla,

3:A complete self-knowledge in all things and at all moments is the gift of the supramental gnosis and with it a complete self-mastery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine 2.27 - The Gnostic Being,

4:the recipient of the sacrifice ::: Whoever the recipient, whatever the gift, it is the Supreme, the Eternal in things, who receives and accepts it, even if it be rejected or ignored by the immediate recipient. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga ,

5:An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that 'begging bowl' to which the gift is drawn. ~ Lewis Hyde,

6:The gifts of the spirit crowding came to him;They were his life’s pattern and his privilege.A pure perception lent its lucent joy:Its intimate vision waited not to think;It enveloped all Nature in a single glance,It looked into the very self of thin ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri The Yoga of the King,

7:Integral theory is a school of philosophy that seeks to integrate all of human wisdom into a new, emergent worldview that is able to accommodate the gifts of all previous worldviews, including those which have been historically at odds: science and religion, Eastern and Western schools of thought, and pre-modern, modern and post-modern worldviews. ~ Daily Evolver,

8:The true occultist wants nothing but wisdom. When Solomon raised his hands to his God, Jehovah spoke from the heavens asking him what he would have, and he answered, "God give me the gift of wisdom." Jehovah asked him if there were not other things he desired, but Solomon answered, "No, only wisdom." And God told Solomon that because he had asked only for wisdom that all the other things should be added unto him and that from this day to the end of the world there would never be another king so rich, so great, or so blest. ~ Manly P Hall,

9:Did you know that when a guy comes, he comes 200 million sperm? And you're trying to tell me that your child is special because one out of 200 million -- that load! we're talking one load! -- connected. Gee, what are the fucking odds? 200 million; you know what that means? I have wiped civilizations off my chest with a gray gym sock. That is special. Entire nations have flaked and crusted in the hair around my navel! That is special. And I want you to remember that, you two egg-carrying beings out there, with that holier-than-thou "we have the gift of life" attitude. I've tossed universes...in my underpants...while napping! Boom! A milky way shoots into my jockey shorts, "Aaaah, what's for fucking breakfast? ~ Bill Hicks,

10:Last, there is to be considered the recipient of the sacrifice and the manner of the sacrifice. The sacrifice may be offered to others or it may be offered to divine Powers; it may be offered to the cosmic All or it may be offered to the transcendent Supreme. The worship given may take any shape from the dedication of a leaf or flower, a cup of water, a handful of rice, a loaf of bread, to consecration of all that we possess and the submission of all that we are. Whoever the recipient, whatever the gift, it is the Supreme, the Eternal in things, who receives and accepts it, even if it be rejected or ignored by the immediate recipient. For the Supreme who transcends the universe, is yet here too, however veiled, in us and in the world and in its happenings; he is there as the omniscient Witness and Receiver of all our works and their secret Master. All our actions, all our efforts, even our sins and stumblings and sufferings and struggles are obscurely or consciously, known to us and seen or else unknown and in a disguise, governed in their last result by the One. All is turned towards him in his numberless forms and offered through them to the single Omnipresence. In whatever form and with whatever spirit we approach him, in that form and with that spirit he receives the sacrifice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga The Yoga of Divine Works,

11:reading ::: 50 Psychology Classics: List of Books Covered: Alfred Adler - Understanding Human Nature (1927) Gordon Allport - The Nature of Prejudice (1954) Albert Bandura - Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control (1997) Gavin Becker - The Gift of Fear (1997) Eric Berne - Games People Play (1964) Isabel Briggs Myers - Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type (1980) Louann Brizendine - The Female Brain (2006) David D Burns - Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (1980) Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (2012) Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1984) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity (1997) Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006) Albert Ellis & Robert Harper - (1961) A Guide To Rational Living(1961) Milton Erickson - My Voice Will Go With You (1982) by Sidney Rosen Eric Erikson - Young Man Luther (1958) Hans Eysenck - Dimensions of Personality (1947) Viktor Frankl - The Will to Meaning (1969) Anna Freud - The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (1936) Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams (1901) Howard Gardner - Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983) Daniel Gilbert - Stumbling on Happiness (2006) Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005) Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence at Work (1998) John M Gottman - The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work (1999) Temple Grandin - The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed (2013) Harry Harlow - The Nature of Love (1958) Thomas A Harris - I'm OK - You're OK (1967) Eric Hoffer - The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951) Karen Horney - Our Inner Conflicts (1945) William James - Principles of Psychology (1890) Carl Jung - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1953) Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) Alfred Kinsey - Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) RD Laing - The Divided Self (1959) Abraham Maslow - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1970) Stanley Milgram - Obedience To Authority (1974) Walter Mischel - The Marshmallow Test (2014) Leonard Mlodinow - Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (2012) IP Pavlov - Conditioned Reflexes (1927) Fritz Perls - Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality (1951) Jean Piaget - The Language and Thought of the Child (1966) Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002) VS Ramachandran - Phantoms in the Brain (1998) Carl Rogers - On Becoming a Person (1961) Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1970) Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less (2004) Martin Seligman - Authentic Happiness (2002) BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom & Dignity (1953) Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen - Difficult Conversations (2000) William Styron - Darkness Visible (1990) ~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Psychology Classics ,

12:This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. Our individualised nature must live in the single consciousness of an inner and outer movement dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple and the sense of a mere physical need or self-gratification must pass away from us. In any great labour, in any high discipline, in any difficult or noble enterprise, whether undertaken for ourselves, for others or for the race, it will no longer be possible to stop short at the idea of the race, of ourselves or of others. The thing we are doing must be consciously offered as a sacrifice of works, not to these, but either through them or directly to the One Godhead; the Divine Inhabitant who was hidden by these figures must be no longer hidden but ever present to our soul, our mind, our sense. The workings and results of our acts must be put in the hands of that One in the feeling that that Presence is the Infinite and Most High by whom alone our labour and our aspiration are possible. For in his being all takes place; for him all labour and aspiration are taken from us by Nature and offered on his altar. Even in those things in which Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice. It is clear that a conception of this kind and its effective practice must carry in them three results that are of a central importance for our spiritual ideal. It is evident, to begin with, that, even if such a discipline is begun without devotion, it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible; for it must deepen naturally into the completest adoration imaginable, the most profound God-love. There is bound up with it a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our thought, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved consecration to the Divine of the totality of our being. Now these implications of the Yoga of works are also of the very essence of an integral and absolute Bhakti. The seeker who puts them into living practice makes in himself continually a constant, active and effective representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine - not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. In all the seeker begins to meet the one Object of his adoration and service. The way of works turns by this road of sacrifice to meet the path of Devotion; it can be itself a devotion as complete, as absorbing, as integral as any the desire of the heart can ask for or the passion of the mind can imagine. Next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, and a constant active externalising of it in works comes in too to intensify the remembrance. In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. A memory, a self-dynamising meditation of this kind, must and does in its end turn into a profound and uninterrupted vision and a vivid and all-embracing consciousness of that which we so powerfully remember or on which we so constantly meditate. For it compels a constant reference at each moment to the Origin of all being and will and action and there is at once an embracing and exceeding of all particular forms and appearances in That which is their cause and upholder. This way cannot go to its end without a seeing vivid and vital, as concrete in its way as physical sight, of the works of the universal Spirit everywhere. On its summits it rises into a constant living and thinking and willing and acting in the presence of the Supramental, the Transcendent. Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover. Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Mother. Therefore is this way a way of union and communion by acts and by the spirit and knowledge in the act as complete and integral as any our Godward will can hope for or our soul's strength execute. It has all the power of a way of works integral and absolute, but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga The Yoga of Divine Works,

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1:Beauty is the gift of God ~ Aristotle

2:He has the gift of quiet. ~ John le Carre

3:Egypt is the gift of the Nile. ~ Herodotus

4:The gift of achievement is ~ Robin Sharma

5:Celebrate the gift of memory. ~ Harley King

6:The gift blesses the giver. ~ Hilary Mantel

7:courage is the gift of character ~ Euripides

8:Give me the gift of a listening heart. ~ Solomon

9:Manners: The Gift of a Gracious ~ Sally Clarkson

10:A gift of truth is the gift of love. ~ David Icke

11:See the gift that change delivers. ~ Jane Seymour

12:the misfits are the gifted. ~ Linda Wagner Martin

13:Accept the gift and honor the giver. ~ Mark Deklin

14:With the gift of faith, we move on. ~ Irvine Welsh

15:A happy genius is the gift of nature. ~ John Dryden

16:Give the gift of your full presence. ~ Haemin Sunim

17:Find the gift in the little things. ~ Lisa Schroeder

18:Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ~ Erma Bombeck

19:Oh would some power the gift give us, ~ Robert Burns

20:The gift of a bad man can bring no good. ~ Euripides

21:For all have not the gift of martyrdom. ~ John Dryden

22:"Give the gift of your full presence." ~ Haemin Sunim

23:[My mother] called [my voice] the gift. ~ Johnny Cash

24:The Girl With All the Gifts (Orbit, July) ~ Anonymous

25:You don’t realize the gift you have. ~ James Lee Burke

26:Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh

27:She has the gift of accepting her life. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri

28:True love's the gift which God has given ~ Walter Scott

29:You are the gift I never saw coming. ~ Kristen Callihan

30:Remember always, you are the gift! ~ Neale Donald Walsch

31:I give her sadness and the gift of pain, ~ Dorothy Parker

32:Sometimes not giving is the gift. —KATE FAL ~ Larry Smith

33:The gifts of bad men bring no good with them. ~ Euripides

34:Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. ~ Eric Maisel

35:Every woman is the gift of a world to me. ~ Heinrich Heine

36:Existence is the gift. Life is a choice. ~ Roshani Chokshi

37:Neglect not the gift that is in thee. ~ I. Timothy. IV. 14

38:The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts. ~ Gautama Buddha

39:The gift of truth excels all other gifts. ~ Gautama Buddha

40:The gift without the giver is rare. ~ James Russell Lowell

41:There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. ~ Euripides

42:The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. ~ Mike Ditka

43:Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever. ~ Garrison Keillor

44:The gifts of God are rarely what we expect. ~ Charlie Lovett

45:The cross is the gift God gives to his friends. ~ Philip Neri

46:The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. ~ Ovid

47:The soil is the gift of God to the living. ~ Thomas Jefferson

48:It is the gift of heaven and not of reason. ~ Pierre Corneille

49:The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... ~ Seamus Heaney

50:Tolerating is the gift from God to women! ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

51:In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver ~ Stephen R Donaldson

52:It is not the gift, but the thought that counts. ~ Paul van Dyk

53:... the nearness of the wound to the gift, ~ Jeanette Winterson

54:He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. ~ Anais Nin

55:It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith. ~ James Cook

56:The gift you offer another person is just your being. ~ Ram Dass

57:The good traveler has the gift of surprise. ~ W Somerset Maugham

58:Trust the gifts that God has placed within you. ~ DeVon Franklin

59:It's important to be grateful for the gifts we have ~ Sarah Weeks

60:time is simply an illusion, and the gifted live on, ~ Jamie Magee

61:Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can. ~ Wayne Dyer

62:The gifts we have are placed in us for other people. ~ Joyce Meyer

63:Accept the gift. And then the gift manifests itself. ~ Paulo Coelho

64:I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag. ~ Adrien Brody

65:Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness. ~ Jan Morris

66:Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few. ~ Cato the Elder

67:the gift given for no reason is the purest gift of all. ~ L A Banks

68:The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase. ~ Rose of Lima

69:Life is the gift of God, and is divine. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

70:The gift is for you...The surprise is for me. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

71:the gift of heaven is in the hands of every man. But ~ Joseph Conrad

72:The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~ Pierre Corneille

73:Tis the gift to be simple... 'Tis the gift to be free... ~ Anne Rice

74:Always remember to love the Giver more than the gifts. ~ Holley Gerth

75:Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

76:Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. ~ Martin Luther

77:The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous. ~ Henry David Thoreau

78:He has given us all the gift of spontaneity—and hope. ~ Gloria Steinem

79:I want to give you the gift of my love, Megan Laramie. ~ Mary Connealy

80:Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

81:Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see. ~ Lee Salk

82:What will you do now with the gift of your left life? ~ Carol Ann Duffy

83:Do we ever give anyone the gift they actually want? ~ Michael Cunningham

84:Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

85:The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. ~ Frank Herbert

86:The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. ~ Martin Luther

87:choosing to give the gift of privacy over that of comfort. ~ Lauren Groff

88:For the will and not the gift makes the giver. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

89:Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies. ~ Emily Dickinson

90:Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence. ~ Deepak Chopra

91:People have to pay a price for the gifts they are given ~ Haruki Murakami

92:Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves ~ Dathan Auerbach

93:To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life. ~ John Henry Newman

94:An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room. ~ Eric Cantona

95:I'm tired of people not treating me like the gift that I am. ~ Paula Abdul

96:The gifts of the Spirit can be recognized by their fruits. ~ Susan Howatch

97:I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you. ~ Blaise Pascal

98:On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted. ~ Andy Hargreaves

99:Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it. ~ Stephen King

100:The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world. ~ Swami Vivekananda

101:The gift of Morpheus brought not only sleep but oblivion. ~ James Lee Burke

102:The gift of prayer is not always at our command. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

103:Always appreciate the gift of life! Be happy and have fun! ~ Michael Jackson

104:Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn! ~ J R R Tolkien

105:Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

106:The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope. ~ Daniel Berrigan

107:The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. ~ T S Eliot

108:The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales. ~ Marissa Meyer

109: ’Tis I who should thank you for the gift of your flesh.” Looming ~ J R Ward

110:We’re using the gifts of God as if they themselves are gods. ~ Matt Chandler

111:You all have a gift. It's free. It's the gift of song. ~ Christine E Schulze

112:Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

113:Cynicism is a disease that robs people of the gift of life. ~ Timothy Ferriss

114:During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving. ~ Warren Buffett

115:Few gifts are as precious as the gifts of freedom and freewill. ~ Johan Twiss

116:Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts. ~ Bryant McGill

117:Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts. ~ Billy Graham

118:The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility. ~ Paul Newman

119:The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

120:The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving. ~ Rob Lowe

121:Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper. ~ Colin Falconer

122:Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things! ~ Horace

123:Theophilus. It is a sin to shirk the gifts that God has given. ~ Alix Christie

124:The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting. ~ Shri Radhe Maa

125:To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death. ~ Maxwell Maltz

126:Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ~ Virginia Woolf

127:If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge. ~ Nelson Mandela

128:Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree ~ India Arie

129:To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life. ~ Saint John Henry Newman

130:All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom. ~ Cato the Younger

131:I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab. ~ Ricky Whittle

132:ROMA 11.29. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. ~ Anonymous

133:The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age. ~ Oscar Wilde

134:The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration. ~ Cornel West

135:Clinging to the gift rather than worshiping the Giver is meaningless. ~ Anonymous

136:Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain? ~ Elisabeth Elliot

137:My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing. ~ Richard Paul Evans

138:Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen. ~ A A Gill

139:The gift is to the giver, and comes back to him . . .” —Walt Whitman ~ Seth Godin

140:The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi. ~ Medgar Evers

141:And I’ll cherish her like the gift she is until I draw my last breath. ~ J Daniels

142:God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence. ~ Dale Carnegie

143:Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature. ~ Luc de Clapiers

144:Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life. ~ Bryant McGill

145:Of all the gifts God gave me, he thought, the greatest one is you. ~ Sylvain Reynard

146:One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention ~ Jim Rohn

147:The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail ~ Walt Whitman

148:The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul. ~ James Hillman

149:The gifts we give say as much about us as the gifts we get and keep, ~ Dot Hutchison

150:Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

151:Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit. ~ Billy Graham

152:O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! ~ Robert Burns

153:Even when you are feeling anxious, thank Me for the gift of My Peace. ~ Sarah Young

154:Gavin de Becker had written a great book on the topic—The Gift of Fear. ~ Barry Eisler

155:Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. ~ Simonides

156:We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

157:Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever. ~ Stephen King

158:Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD. ~ Oswald Chambers

159:Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop. ~ Carrot Top

160:God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play. ~ Lenny Kravitz

161:He had the gifts I would have wanted most for you: humor and generosity. ~ Sarah Smarsh

162:The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor. ~ Jennifer Aniston

163:The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties. ~ Parley P Pratt

164:Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long ~ David Steindl Rast

165:Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us. ~ Robert Burns

166:Someone with less talent who works hard often outperforms the gifted. ~ James Scott Bell

167:The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example. ~ Delbert L Stapley

168:True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven. ~ Walter Scott

169:We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech. ~ Gordon Brown

170:What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift. ~ Jeanette Winterson

171:When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life. ~ Allan Lokos

172:Your life is an opportunity to give the gifts that your soul wants to give. ~ Gary Zukav

173:Oh the gift that god could give us, to see ourselves as others see others. ~ Robert Burns

174:The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away. ~ Bryant McGill

175:The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again. ~ Robert Graves

176:The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination. ~ Wayne Dyer

177:The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul. ~ George Eliot

178:Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever. ~ Stephen King

179:For men, love is nothing more than gratitude for the gift of pleasure ~ Michel Houellebecq

180:Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

181:Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is. ~ Rebecca Pippert

182:I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing. ~ Lisa Nicole Carson

183:Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

184:Life is the gift that keeps on giving. Appreciate that blessing for what it is ~ Les Brown

185:My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I. ~ Maurice Sendak

186:Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones. ~ Don Meyer

187:The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~ Emile Zola

188:The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~ mile Zola

189:For men, love is nothing more than gratitude for the gift of pleasure, ~ Michel Houellebecq

190:Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. ~ Jim Rohn

191:The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination. ~ Wayne W Dyer

192:Don't underestimate the gift of someone who smiles every time they see you. ~ David Levithan

193:If someone gives themselves to you freely, you just have to accept the gift. ~ Fisher Amelie

194:Today I will give to others only the gifts I want to accept for myself. ~ Gerald G Jampolsky

195:baby lick me. like your mouth has the gift of reading and i'm your favorite book. ~ Rupi Kaur

196:Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood. ~ Eleesha

197:The gift you can give to other people is allowing them to give you something. ~ RuPaul

198:Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do. ~ Anita Baker

199:Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most. ~ Sri Chinmoy

200:A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~ Thomas Kempis

201:Because dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever. ~ Stephen King

202:He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. ~ John Adams

203:I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. ~ Anne Lamott

204:Life wants you to have gratitude for the gift of living. Treasure every second. ~ Bryant McGill

205:Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift. ~ Philip Sidney

206:That is the gift of taking the long road: you know you're not missing anything. ~ Melissa Febos

207:The pleasure men take in denigration of the gifted is one of the puzzles of life ~ Frank Harris

208:Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do. ~ Max Weber

209:Give yourself the gift of a joyous life while you’re still among the living. Also, ~ Jen Sincero

210:Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered; it is accepting them. ~ Alan Cohen

211:that what befell them was not unsalvageable misfortune but the gift of education— ~ Ryan Holiday

212:The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

213:Without being conscious of death, you can’t be fully aware of the gift of life. ~ Steve Chandler

214:A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

215:And isn't part of your life doing something with the gifts God has given you? ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

216:The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly. ~ Mary E Pearson

217:These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self. ~ Pope Francis

218:We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. ~ Madeleine L Engle

219:we must take care to be “the user, but not the slave, of the gifts of Fortune. ~ William B Irvine

220:But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. ~ Sophocles

221:God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ~ Voltaire

222:In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs. ~ Seth Godin

223:Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts. ~ Randall Wallace

224:Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

225:This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. ~ Emmet Gowin

226:For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? ~ John Calvin

227:In return for surrendering to the throw, you are given the gift of flight,’ he said. ~ Tan Twan Eng

228:Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. ~ James Russell Lowell

229:The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you. ~ Deepak Chopra

230:Without being conscious of death, you can't be fully aware of the gift of life. ~ Steve Chandler

231:Embrace the true essence of Christmas - by embracing the gift and essence of life, itself. ~ Eleesha

232:Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. ~ Marian Anderson

233:Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy. ~ Seneca the Younger

234:Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. ~ Marcus Aurelius

235:The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison. ~ Mark Nepo

236:Though mountains melt and oceans burn, The gifts of love shall still return. ~ Rosamund Hodge

237:We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable. ~ Jeff Zentner

238:We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give. ~ Luc de Clapiers

239:We don’t celebrate the gift of Jesus on Christmas. We celebrate the gifts we get. ~ Jefferson Bethke

240:we must take care to be “the user, but not the slave, of the gifts of Fortune.”17 ~ William B Irvine

241:Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional. ~ Garrett Hardin

242:I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it. ~ Jaime Escalante

243:May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

244:The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them. ~ Francois Fenelon

245:Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity ~ Lin Manuel Miranda

246:You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs. ~ Jane Roberts

247:Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself. ~ John Green

248:All I have is a gift from the giver. What I do with the gift is my way of giving thanks. ~ Eldon Taylor

249:Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts. ~ Thomas Hughes

250:Even meaning and destiny themselves can be read in ordinary things, if you have the gift. ~ Stephen Fry

251:Faithful persons are expected to seek the gifts of the Spirit with all their hearts. ~ Bruce R McConkie

252:Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments. ~ Sasha Azevedo

253:John Calvin defines idolatry as worshipping “the gifts in place of the giver himself. ~ Nancy R Pearcey

254:Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !! ~ Winston Churchill

255:Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way ~ Judith Jamison

256:When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back. ~ Paul Stanley

257:Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind. ~ Homer

258:To have been placed on this planet with you...at the same time...is the gift of my life. ~ Camille Pag n

259:Faith is as much the gift of God as is the Saviour upon whom that faith relies. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

260:For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  ~ Anonymous

261:The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

262:What a fool she had been to waste the most precious gift of all, the gift of today. She ~ Barbara Bretton

263:You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods. ~ Robert Collier

264:You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord. ~ Pope Gregory I

265:Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging. ~ Reggie McNeal

266:Even we are guilty of not nurturing gifts, and the gifts that aren’t fed shrivel and die. ~ Mary E Pearson

267:God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself. ~ Francois Fenelon

268:He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. ~ Thomas a Kempis

269:I do not want the lying kindness and the gifts of men, nor of other than men. I am armed now. ~ Tanith Lee

270:It is not the magnitude of the gift that matters but the magnitude of the heart that offers it. ~ Vanamali

271:The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again. ~ J I Packer

272:The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

273:The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. ~ Stephen Levine

274:For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor. ~ Janet Morris

275:For the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ Jesus or LORD. ~ Anonymous

276:Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many. ~ Brian Houston

277:If the gift of God is for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

278:The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein

279:When the gift replaces the giver as the object of our worship, something surprising happens. ~ Kyle Idleman

280:Don’t take your talents for granted. You have nothing to worry about with the gift you hold. ~ Jennifer Foor

281:GRACE GRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God. ~ Max Lucado

282:I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs. ~ Yo Gotti

283:Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift ~ Tamora Pierce

284:says a fine Greek adage, "is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.") ~ Will Durant

285:says a fine Greek adage, “is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.”) ~ Will Durant

286:Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. ~ Alexander Pope

287:I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. ~ Clayton Christensen

288:It is the Holy Spirit himself, the gift of the risen Christ, who makes us recognize the Truth. ~ Pope Francis

289:Perhaps the gift you seek already resides within you awaiting the day you choose to unwrap it. ~ Truth Devour

290:The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function. ~ Laszlo Moholy Nagy

291:To me sobriety is a gift from God to me. If I drank, it would be giving the gift back. ~ Alcoholics Anonymous

292:If only you knew all the gifts that you bring to others. You would never feel sad again. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

293:Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled. ~ Gordon B Hinckley

294:Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you. ~ Paulo Coelho

295:To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. ~ William Shakespeare

296:Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share. ~ Bryant McGill

297:If I had any prejudices, the gift of such delicious fruit as this would melt them all away. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

298:In love, there was no such thing as borrowed time, only the gift of the time we had been given. ~ Bella Forrest

299:Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. ~ Max De Pree

300:Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. ~ Norman Cousins

301:The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

302:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ~ Anonymous

303:Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. ~ Pope John Paul II

304:Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton

305:For liberality resides not in the multitude of the gifts but in the state of character of the giver. ~ Aristotle

306:I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky. ~ Ralph Lauren

307:Intuition is the gift of knowing, hearing, feeling, or seeing through our spiritual senses. ~ Catherine Carrigan

308:Successful people tend to find those milieus where the gifts they possess are most highly valued. ~ David Brooks

309:The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life. ~ Michael Meade

310:There are so few silent spaces in this modern world; I have learned to relish the gift of insomnia. ~ Lisa Unger

311:We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother ~ Jane Goodall

312:Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. ~ Franz Grillparzer

313:The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant. ~ Bryant McGill

314:Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this. ~ Michelangelo

315:God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. ~ James Clavell

316:God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are. ~ David Jeremiah

317:I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. ~ Judd Apatow

318:Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. ~ Octavio Paz

319:Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind. ~ Jackie Robinson

320:Somehow, with all the gifts, dinners, and the left-behind checkbook, I’ve handicapped my family. ~ Gabourey Sidibe

321:Surely that gift—the gift of a world of human decency—is the one that all countries hunger for still. ~ Lois Lowry

322:When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience. ~ Joyce DeWitt

323:He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. ~ Charles Kingsley

324:I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same. ~ Clay Aiken

325:It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present ~ Andy Andrews

326:It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. ~ Margery Sharp

327:Life," says a fine Greek adage, "is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.") ~ Will Durant

328:The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us. ~ Roland Barthes

329:The greatest gift that you could ever give another is the gift of your expectation of their success. ~ Esther Hicks

330:Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift. ~ Mike Dooley

331:You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair. ~ Sophie Hannah

332:For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself. ~ Wilmer Valderrama

333:He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. ~ Winston Churchill

334:He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche) ~ Rafael Sabatini

335:Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference. ~ Tupac Shakur

336:Maybe the real problem was within me and my lack of belief in the gifts that every being possesses. ~ Robin S Sharma

337:The ability to find pixilation amid the pixelation is at the essence of the gift of celestial Grace. ~ David B Lentz

338:the gift is having a daughter more gentle than you are, whose laughter is finer than yours. ~ Charles Bukowski

339:There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ~ John Dryden

340:And some people have the gift of speaking the truth and convincing their listeners that it is a lie. ~ Mary Balogh

341:Children couldn't appreciate the gift of that life until they'd grown past the point of enjoying it. ~ Karpov Kinrade

342:For all the gifts of computer technology, if its power goes underappreciated, it can hijack the brain. ~ Matt Richtel

343:For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. EPHESIANS 2:8 ~ Anonymous

344:For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23 ~ Beth Moore

345:good. In order to ignite the full ardency of dharma, The Gift must be put in the service of The Times. ~ Stephen Cope

346:I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace. ~ Mary Portas

347:May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought the gift of God could be obtained with money!  ~ Anonymous

348:Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it. ~ Henri Nouwen

349:ROM6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ~ Anonymous

350:The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence. ~ James H Cone

351:Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT. ~ Rob Bell

352:Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do. ~ Katie Taylor

353:In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility. ~ Bryant McGill

354:Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God ~ Leo F Buscaglia

355:People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. ~ Anne Frank

356:Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness. ~ Bryant McGill

357:The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them. ~ Rod McKuen

358:Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles? ~ Edward Gibbon

359:Your father threw away the greatest gift your mother could bestow- the gift of what their love created. ~ Cameron Dokey

360:Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi

361:Artistic talent is indeed a gift from God, which the artist is obliged to match with the gift of his life. ~ Clive James

362:Everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 3:13 ~ Anonymous

363:Make every day special. Own it. Enjoy it. Bask in the glory of life. Appreciate the gift of your own life. ~ Donna Fargo

364:Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ~ Gaston Bachelard

365:The gift?” “An ability to utilize the etheric sense despite their encapsulation in the physical body. ~ Richard Matheson

366:There's only one thing to do with God's offer of the gift of salvation: Say "thank you" and embrace it. ~ David Jeremiah

367:We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life. ~ Genevieve

368:Her palm was broad and strong and dry. Its nakedness against his own was like the gift of her entire body. ~ John le Carr

369:I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. ~ Anatole France

370:Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful. ~ Epicurus

371:reporter told me that after reading The Gifts of Imperfection and Daring Greatly, he wanted to start working ~ Bren Brown

372:When you understand how great the gift you have been given by Jesus is, you can’t help but follow him. ~ Jefferson Bethke

373:Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay

374:First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life. ~ Oksana Baiul

375:I already have a doctorate in conflict investment. I don’t really need the gifted-amateur reading list. ~ Richard K Morgan

376:I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. ~ Roger Ebert

377:It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use. ~ Orrin Woodward

378:...the best gift we can give each other is the gift of time -- those precious, special, eternal moments. ~ Shmuley Boteach

379:The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. ~ Rumi

380:The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path. ~ James Fenimore Cooper

381:We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

382:Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. ~ Maya Angelou

383:For by grace are ye saved through faith; And that not of yourselves; It is the gift of God. —EPHESIANS 2:8 ~ Rosalind Lauer

384:If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

385:I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that. ~ John Denver

386:That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality. ~ C S Lewis

387:The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

388:I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened. ~ Karen Essex

389:life does not stop for anybody it drags you by the legs whether you want to move forward or not that is the gift ~ Rupi Kaur

390:MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought. ~ Winston S Churchill

391:Some people never understand the gift they have. And some people wait a lifetime to have someone to love. ~ Kristen Callihan

392:The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. ~ Quintilian

393:We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused ~ Satish Kumar

394:Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better. ~ Sandra Bullock

395:Faith in one’s own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man, ~ Arthur C Clarke

396:I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication. ~ Jane Green

397:One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered ~ Roger Ebert

398:When the blind refuse the gift of sight, you only anger them by describing what the world around them offers. ~ Shannon Mayer

399:When we listen to the voice of the Dreamer and hide behind our somedays, we miss out on the gifts of today. ~ Emily P Freeman

400:ECC3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. ~ Anonymous

401:Oh, so now it's you with the gift of prophecy, is it? I know what I've seen. You are my key and my salvation. ~ Rachel Hawkins

402:Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully. ~ A W Tozer

403:There was no success that could make me more worthy of the gift. And no failure that could take it away. ~ Virginia Carmichael

404:When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift? ~ C S Lewis

405:gift of wisdom consisting in the power to do this, the gift actually presupposes our conscious inability to do it, ~ J I Packer

406:If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai. ~ Paulo Coelho

407:Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you “I’m not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given. ~ Bren Brown

408:... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom. ~ Ursula K Le Guin

409:Sometimes we spend way too much time questioning the gifts we're given instead of being thankful for them. ~ Elisabeth Naughton

410:the wait sometimes is essential to appreciate the gifts that follow, no matter how much we may resent the process. ~ Jeff Goins

411:By recognizing and replacing our emptiness with the fullness of God’s promises, we drink the gift of living water. ~ Renee Swope

412:Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor. ~ Dwight L Moody

413:Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future. ~ William F Schulz

414:We are to love God, not for the gifts bestowed upon us but for the sake of love itself. ~ Eyran Katsenelenbogen, One Time (2018)

415:When the blind refuse the gift of sight, you only anger them by describing what the world around them offers.” I ~ Shannon Mayer

416:punished us with the gift of being able to fake it. Show God who the real boss is by getting off and getting yours. ~ Amy Poehler

417:Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones. ~ Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

418:He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another. ~ Pope Clement I

419:Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. ~ Bob Marley

420:The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. ~ John Burroughs

421:We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides. ~ Ann Patchett

422:Without an end, there is no game. Without being conscious of death, you can’t be fully aware of the gift of life. ~ Steve Chandler

423:Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness. ~ Bryant McGill

424:But I decided that buying the gift was more for me than for her, anyhow. A commercial kind of substitute for prayer. ~ Joe Haldeman

425:Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it ~ Laura Riding Jackson

426:Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age. ~ Brian Jacques

427:The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

428:There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. ~ Jean Paul

429:What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence? ~ Kathy L Patrick

430:Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling. ~ Grace Bridges

431:23  The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Jesus our Lord. ~ Anonymous

432:In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. ~ William Baldwin

433:It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me. ~ Sasha Azevedo

434:It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever. ~ Sela Ward

435:The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life. ~ Lewis Thomas

436:We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life -- physical, intellectual, and moral life. ~ Fr d ric Bastiat

437:In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . ~ Edward Gibbon

438:In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. ~ Richard Paul Evans

439:O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self? ~ Saint Catherine of Siena

440:The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God. ~ Plato

441:The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes. ~ Paulo Coelho

442:Friendship is provisional, you have to keep earning it, back and forth, give the gift that's only each other's to give ~ Howard Norman

443:Human is human,” said Issib. “But civilized—that’s the gift of the Oversoul. Civilization without self-destruction. ~ Orson Scott Card

444:I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

445:Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about. ~ Henri Nouwen

446:Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

447:People aren't always what they appear, James. The gift is accepting them as who they are, not who we want them to be. ~ Katherine Reay

448:Scraps The scraps from the meal of the Emir are larger than the gifts of halwa from the merchant. Timur Fazil ~ Idries Shah

449:Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen. ~ Leo Tolstoy

450:The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive. ~ Ray Bradbury

451:The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez

452:The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

453:Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift of philosophy? ~ Seneca

454:Dirt!" she shouted, no longer able to contain her ire. "Of all the gifts I could have received, I am left with dirt. ~ Kristen Callihan

455:He sat down with great caution, after inspecting the chair for concealed electrodes, and made me the gift of his card. ~ Ross Macdonald

456:My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. ~ Gerald Durrell

457:The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. ~ Igor Stravinsky

458:A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. ~ Thomas Jefferson

459:Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things! ~ Pope Francis

460:For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

461:How little we understand of the gifts we have been given or the shape of the path we took to reach our salvation. ~ Harley King

462:Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. ~ Julia Cameron

463:The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness. ~ Gautama Buddha

464:The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. ~ Anne Lamott

465:When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving? ~ Shannon L Alder

466:Happiness Habits for Empowerment 1. Focus on the Solution 2. Look for the Lesson and the Gift 3. Make Peace with Yourself ~ Marci Shimoff

467:I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers (1960) "Poem of the Gifts" ["Poema de los Dones"].

468:In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

469:It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye. ~ Dave Eggers

470:Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart. ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

471:Some of the best things in life come when you’re not planning on them. It’s important to see them for the gift they are. ~ Susan Crandall

472:The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend. ~ Richard Rohr

473:The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not. ~ Steve Howey

474:What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though. ~ Frank Herbert

475:Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is. ~ Brenda Shoshanna

476:I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within. ~ Plautus

477:In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh

478:Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see. ~ Jodi Picoult

479:Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

480:The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity. ~ Kathryn Jean Lopez

481:Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~ Niccol Machiavelli

482:Only if we die, or are threatened with death, do we question and whine about how all this time we wasted the gift of living. ~ Cameron Jace

483:Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner. ~ Phil Pringle

484:Testimonials give potential customers the gift of going second. They know others have worked with you and attained success. ~ Donald Miller

485:When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning. ~ Abraham Verghese

486:When you give up because challenges arise, you are just too ignorant about the power of the gifts you carry within you. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

487:you cannot expose the gifts, talents, and natural abilities that God put into you if you do not become reconnected with Him. ~ Myles Munroe

488:If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child. ~ Stuart Duncan

489:I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love. ~ Ignatius of Antioch

490:Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

491:O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion. ~ Robert Burns

492:To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever. ~ Midori Snyder

493:Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free. ~ Shannon L Alder

494:Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli,

495:My happiness is not in the gift of others. I will be happy or I will not be happy. No man will supply it or deprive me of it. ~ David Gemmell

496:The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

497:When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough. ~ Shannon L Alder

498:Every morning I wake up and see my beautiful wife is like a gift. She gave me the gift of love and gorgeous wonderful babies. ~ Dean McDermott

499:I don’t have the gift to aptly describe the rest of that evening, except to say it was a Christmas Eve beyond all gasping wishes, ~ Leif Enger

500:The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave. ~ Samuel Adams

--- IN CHAPTERS (in Dictionaries, in Quotes, in Chapters)

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   52 Integral Yoga
   45 Poetry
   22 Occultism
   22 Christianity
   18 Philosophy
   11 Psychology
   7 Fiction
   4 Mythology
   3 Mysticism
   2 Philsophy
   2 Integral Theory
   2 Buddhism
   1 Yoga
   1 Science
   1 Kabbalah
   1 Alchemy


   30 Sri Aurobindo
   25 The Mother
   21 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   15 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   11 Carl Jung
   10 Saint John of Climacus
   8 Satprem
   6 William Wordsworth
   5 Rudolf Steiner
   5 Plato
   5 Friedrich Schiller
   4 Sri Ramakrishna
   4 Robert Browning
   4 Plotinus
   4 Ovid
   4 James George Frazer
   4 H P Lovecraft
   4 Aleister Crowley
   4 Aldous Huxley
   3 Walt Whitman
   3 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   3 Friedrich Nietzsche
   2 Saint Teresa of Avila
   2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
   2 Rabindranath Tagore
   2 Jordan Peterson
   2 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   2 Bokar Rinpoche


   13 City of God
   10 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   6 Wordsworth - Poems
   6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   5 The Bible
   5 Schiller - Poems
   5 Savitri
   5 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   5 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
   5 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   4 Words Of Long Ago
   4 The Perennial Philosophy
   4 The Golden Bough
   4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   4 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   4 Questions And Answers 1956
   4 Metamorphoses
   4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   4 Browning - Poems
   3 Whitman - Poems
   3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   3 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   3 The Secret Doctrine
   3 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   3 Shelley - Poems
   3 Questions And Answers 1954
   3 Magick Without Tears
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   3 Collected Poems
   2 The Way of Perfection
   2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
   2 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   2 Tagore - Poems
   2 Questions And Answers 1953
   2 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
   2 Maps of Meaning
   2 Liber ABA
   2 Letters On Yoga II
   2 Emerson - Poems
   2 Aion
   2 Agenda Vol 03
   2 Agenda Vol 01
   2 5.1.01 - Ilion

01.03_-_The_Yoga_of_the_King_The_Yoga_of_the_Souls_Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Its throb of satisfaction and content   In all the sweetness of The Gifts of life,   Its large breath and pulse and thrill of hope and fear,

03.01_-_The_Pursuit_of_the_Unknowable, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   ALL IS too little that the world can give:   Its power and knowledge are The Gifts of Time   And cannot fill the spirit's sacred thirst.

03.02_-_Aspects_of_Modernism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga       How then does the twentieth century propose to mark out its difference from the past? "Science and the scientific outlook," many would answer. But to others that difference itself might appear antiquated. For, strictly speaking, science was the key-note of the nineteenth century; and although we of the twentieth are enjoying its fruits, putting it to more practical use than our predecessors did, yet it is they who embodied its spirit, its special and proper rule of light and life. We have not discarded The Gift, but assimilated it and even seem to have outgrown it; we have added to it or extended and developed it.

03.03_-_The_House_of_the_Spirit_and_the_New_Creation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   Each gave its powers to help its neighbours' parts,   But suffered no diminution by The Gift;   Profiteers of a mystic interchange,

03.12_-_TagorePoet_and_Seer, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga       The breath of modernism that Tagore has brought into the life and letters of the Bengali race is, I repeat, suffused with a soul-feelinga sense of refinement and dignity, wideness and catholicity and urbanity in the inner make-up of life-attitude and consciousness, a feeling that one no longer lives in his village, confined to its insular limits, but that one lives a life coterminous with human life at large and at its best; one is cosmopolitan in the noblest sense of the word and one has to move and act and speak in a manner becoming such a position. A high sense of all the aristocratic virtues, plus a certain sunshine of wit and playful intelligence that prevents the serious and the lofty from becoming grim and Dantesque are part of The Gifts that Tagore has brought us and made a living element of our literary and even social character.

04.02_-_Human_Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga       One can point out however that even before the modern scientific age, there was an epoch of pure intellectual activity, as represented, for example, by scholasticism. The formal intellectualism which was The Gift of the Greek sophists or the Mimansakas and grammarians in ancient India has to be recognised as a pure mental movement, freed from all life value or biological bias. What then is the difference? What is the new characteristic element brought in by the modern scientific intellectualism?

04.03_-_The_Call_to_the_Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga   A pilgrim hand lifts in an invisible shrine.   There came The Gift of a revealing hour:   He saw through depths that reinterpret all,

04.07_-_Readings_in_Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga       But the task is not easy. The flesh is weak: it is incapable of holding or receiving the breath of immortality. Not only so, it has a positive aversion, a bad will: it is refractory, antipa thetic to the touch of the spirit. Matter is dull and dumb, dark and obdurate: mortality loves and clings jealously and exclusively to its mortal home. The earthly being does not know, cannot appreciate The Gift, the boon that is brought to him, to his very door: he has only to receive and accept in order to be saved out of all ignorance and grief, impotence and death. The Divine Mother has forgotten herself, has made herself as small and as close and native to earth as any earthly creature, like anyone of us, taken upon herself all limitations and indignities, the entire burden of an earthly life, graced with her presence this mortal atmosphere. But

04.41_-_To_the_Heights-XLI, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga    It is your unreserved giving that will create the spaciousness    to hold safely The Gift from the Divine.

05.22_-_Success_and_its_Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga       That, however, is the case with the normal man with the normal nature. But precisely because of the growth of self-consciousness, man has developed the power to increase his powers: he can extend the boundaries of his capacities and possibilities. He need not confine himself within the dimensions that he naturally possesses or acquires in the normal course of his growth. He can follow an abnormal or extraordinary course of growth, break through his limits and establish contact with the vast and the illimitable and the incalculable, even the very fount and origin- of all power. That is The Gift of Yoga, spiritual discipline.