Life Is A Gift Quotes Page 2

When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end;

the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.

Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

There is a greater gift than the trust of others.

That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith. But if it makes us brave, the label doesn’t matter... for it’s the thing that frees us, to embrace life itself.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.

Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God.

It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents.

What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift universe in the mouth! The best way to pay for a beautiful moment is to enjoy it.

So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.

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.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand.

This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift.

To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor.

She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

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.

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life.

Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.

There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

A good character is something you must make for yourself.

It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful.

.. to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.