Gift Quotes

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In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill. — Peter Drucker
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast… — Saint Augustine
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. — John Heywood
A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a… — David Steindl-Rast
The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves. — David Steindl-Rast
Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given… — Michael Josephson
Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift. — Michael Josephson
Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed… — Michael Josephson
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply… — Parker J. Palmer
There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a… — David Steindl-Rast
I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned… — Jean Shinoda Bolen
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. — Louise Erdrich
Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it. — Alison Jolly
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most,… — Dante Alighieri
It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them. — Curtis Strange
Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands. — Unknown Author
Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of… — Unknown Author
President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He has the gift… — David E. Sorensen
As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms of faith, but… — Kevin W. Pearson

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