Greatest Gifts Quotes - Page 8

• I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they’re likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they’re in grade school.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Children, School

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

  Holt McCallany

  Responsibility, Trying, Actors

  "Holt McCallany and Executive Producer/Showrunner Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Giving, Mortality

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Sometimes, Given, Grows

  Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.21, Penguin

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• The greatest gift we give each other
  is the quality of our attention.

  Richard Moss

  Giving, Quality, Attention

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• I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

  Carla Hall

  Mom, Mother, Cancer

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• When I meet young girls, Im always like, Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because its the greatest gift I can give.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Girl, Years, Giving

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• Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

  Alan Cohen

  Needs, Divinity, Want

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• The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Development, Work Harder

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• The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

  John Owen

  Heaven, Grace, Privilege

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• Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Giving, Greatest Love

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.295, Penguin

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• The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving, Embrace, Gift Of Time

  Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Blessed, Taken

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• It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.

  Wintley Phipps

  Inspirational, Encouraging, God

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• Women, aren't they perfect? It doesn't matter if they're fat, skinny, blond, or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy-oh-boy women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first meet them and get to know them. Ache when you leave them. Joy. Ache. Joy. Ache. Joyachejoyachejoyachejoyache.

  Joe Pesci

  Love, Dream, Boys

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• The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

  Caroline Myss

  Inspirational, Listening To Others, Giving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2014

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• As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

  Neil Young

  Vision, Important, Fund

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• The greatest gift I ever had
  Came from God; I call him Dad!

  John Walter Bratton

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Jesus, Blessing

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• The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.

  Philip Connors

  Sleep, Thinking, Mountain

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• One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Evoke, Tenderness

  Dean Koontz (2011). “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie”, p.170, Bantam

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• Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Offering, Self, Naked

  "12 Tips for Happiness in 2012" By Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Giving, Challenges

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• Everyone knows how to smile. Its one of the greatest gifts God has given us. A smile makes people feel good, and people look so beautiful when they smile.

  Joyce Meyer

  Beautiful, People, Feel Good

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• Heavenly Father offers to you the greatest gift of all—eternal life—and the opportunity and infinite blessing of your own “happily ever after.”

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Blessing, Opportunity

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