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Gift Quotes by David Steindl-Rast
- 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…
- The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
- 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…
- Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
- "...One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times…
- One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
- Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in…
- There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity…
- If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.
- 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…
More Gift Quotes
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- We too need to protect, guide, and encourage our young people, helping them to build a society worthy of their great spiritual… — Pope Francis
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain. — Rajneesh
- Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that… — Pope Francis
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted… — Dick Cheney