Great Gifts Quotes - Page 3

• I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a sturdy will. I have a big heart. I'm a decent guy. And I have a great gift. It's blunted me to the world in many ways.

  James Ellroy

  Christian, Heart, Dark

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.

  John Novak

  Yoga, Discovery, Breathing

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• The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

  James A. Michener

  Men, Battle, Belonging

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• When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.

  Zicheng Hong

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Self

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• All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Imagination, Mind, Forget

  "The Dagger with Wings: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

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• Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

  Albert Speer

  Intuition, Shapes, Adjusting

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• Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

  Barbara Sher

  Greatness, Love Is, Facts

  Barbara Sher (2013). “It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE”, p.354, Dell

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• It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your own family, your own class, your own race, your own neighborhood - that is one of the great gifts that art affords.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Race, Class

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• The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

  Corliss Lamont

  Wise, Honesty, Men

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• I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

  Jessica Chastain

  Directors, Done, Nine

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• Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Ignorance

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• I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

  Jake Owen

  Daughter, Mother, Selfish

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• The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

  Jim Rohn

  Knowledge, Imagination, Limits

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 16, 2015

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• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

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• A great gift is an answer waiting for a question.

  Kevin Kling

  Waiting, Answers

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• Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Secret, Hidden Secrets

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• Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

  John Lubbock

  Years, Purpose, Life Is

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beauty, Girl, Sweet

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• Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.

  Christopher Parsons

  Valentine, Men, Blue

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• For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ocean, Weather, Air

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• For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

  Ann Brashares

  Children, Reading, Parent

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Heart, Eye, Utterance

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• Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

  Dan Chaon

  Mean, Perspective, Empathy

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Boss, Ants

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