God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. — Tony Robbins
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. — Marge Piercy
Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy. — Maya Angelou
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. — Billy Mills
Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us. — Maria Shriver
Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child. — Ronald Reagan
Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give. — Nachman of Breslov
Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace. — Thomas Merton
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness. — David Steindl-Rast
Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give. — Shakti Gawain
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back -- length of life. — Rose Kennedy
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused — Satish Kumar
Short Gifts Quotes
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! — Joyce Meyer
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. — Leo Buscaglia
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. — Mother Teresa
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. — Eleanor Powell
The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching. — Loren Cunningham
God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them. — C. S. Lewis
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Garson Kanin
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. — Jean Beliveau
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. — Ruby Dee
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
About Gifts Quotes
I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about. — Christina Grimmie
The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever. — Bob Marley
Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition. — Sanford Meisner
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it present.
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did. — Konrad Lorenz
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. — Florence Nightingale
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift. — Carrie Fisher
Everyone is gifted, but some people never open their package.
Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman. — Sushmita Sen
Mom used to quote Isaiah 64: about waiting on the Lord. It doesn't mean being complacent. It means understanding that he has a plan, and that we're not the ones in control. In the meantime, we need to strive to use our gifts and abilities fully. — Tim Tebow
Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives. — Will Smith
The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself. — Louis C. K.
Life Is A Gift Present Quotes
Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. — Deepak Chopra
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love. — Alice Herz-Sommer
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. — Brian Dyson
Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift. — Oprah Winfrey
Yesterday is a history; Tomorrow a mystery; Today is a gift; That's why we call it the present
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. — Ernest Hemingway
You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present. — Mike Ditka
Life Is A Gift Quotes
Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference. — Tupac Shakur
The greatest gift you can give to someone is your time. Because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time — Rick Warren
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life. — Edith Stein
In the tapestry of life, we're all connected. Each one of us is a gift to those around us helping each other be who we are, weaving a perfect picture together. — Anita Moorjani
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. — Yul Brynner
Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life. — RZA
life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met. — Madeleine L'Engle
No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image. — John F. MacArthur
Gift Of Love Quotes
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully. — Ignatius of Loyola
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. — Helen Steiner Rice
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis
Nature never gives everything at once.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. — Edith Stein
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being. — St. Catherine of Siena
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success! — David O. Mckay
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. — George Macdonald
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Gift From God Quotes
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. — Abraham Lincoln
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. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. — Nikola Tesla
Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive — Meister Eckhart
Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor. — Martin Luther
Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope. — Michael Faraday
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. — Blaise Pascal
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. — Felix Mendelssohn
The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament. — Samuel Adams
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. — Bil Keane
Precious Gifts Quotes
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life. — Nancy Reagan
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace — Marie Curie
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration. — Cornel West
I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold — Chuck Schuldiner
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. — John Lennon
Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Blessings In Life Quotes
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man. — Gannicus
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. — Amy Carmichael
There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you. — Joel Osteen
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life. — Joseph Murphy
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise — Oscar Wilde
To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems — Pope John XXIII
There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:
Jesus is my God,
Jesus is my Spouse,
Jesus is my Life,
Jesus is my only Love,
Jesus is my All in All;
Jesus is my Everything. — Mother Teresa
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place. — C. S. Lewis
Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life. — Rhonda Byrne
Celebration Of Life Quotes
If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy. — Vandana Shiva
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! — Stevie Wonder
Don't be jealous of other people's success. Celebrate it, use it as inspiration. Life is way more fun that way. — Lex Fridman
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Stanley
For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me! — Romero Britto
Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another. — Paul David Tripp
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
Joy Of Life Quotes
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy. — Le Corbusier
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness! — Leon Trotsky
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching. — Marva Collins
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. — Tecumseh
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. — William Wordsworth
Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life. — Saint John Chrysostom
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen
Special Gifts Quotes
A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something. — Max De Pree
There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world. — Marie Forleo
Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams. The world needs that special gift that only you have. — Marie Forleo
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. — Og Mandino
Even if you're not the most naturally gifted, you can often win by being the best in a very narrow category. — James Clear
Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others. — Ed Thigpen
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. — Og Mandino
Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making special melodies of sound to balance your chakras and tune up your body. — Barbara Marciniak
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. — John Burroughs
Celebrate Life Quotes
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. — Che Guevara
Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations. — T. D. Jakes
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death. — Anselm of Canterbury
Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are you. — Mandy Hale
Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear. — James Spader
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. — Fred A. Allen
"You look how you look," "Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb." — Jennifer Lawrence
We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present. — Clive Barker
I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is. — 21 Savage
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes. — Adyashanti
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. — Laura Gilpin
If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end. — Akiane Kramarik
In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive. — Leo Buscaglia
Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way. — Jimmy Buffett
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world. — Rudolf Steiner
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another. — Kahlil Gibran
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks
There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given. — Prince
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. — Bil Keane
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. — Max Lucado
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