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Gift Quotes by Josef Pieper
- To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
- The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless;…
- Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
- No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude…
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- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it… — Saint Augustine
- Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. — Richard Bach
- Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. — Richard Bach
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- Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real… — Erykah Badu
- First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a… — Oksana Baiul
- What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see… — Javier Bardem
- If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI