Greatest Gifts Quotes - Page 11

• Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says 'The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.' Offer this gift.

  Rob Brezsny

  Life, Teacher, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.178, Frog Books

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• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

  Richard Moss

  Educational, Communication, Wrestling

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• Hard times produce your greatest gifts.

  Robin Sharma

  Hard Times, Produce, Hard

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 27, 2012

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• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Caring, People, Faults

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• I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

  Steve Southerland

  Believe, Vulnerable, Dependent

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• The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Creativity, Giving, Pieces

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• Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

  Richard Dawkins

  World, Evolution, Newton

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• One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

  James D. Watson

  Religion, Atheism, World

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• Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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• To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

  Ayn Rand

  Communication, Sight, Achievement

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.176, Penguin

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• The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Giving

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• There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.

  James McBride

  Children, Hate, Believe

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• You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.

  Mother Teresa

  Life Is, Given, Shows

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• Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

  Jon Voight

  Travel, Adventure, Risk

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• One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.

  Bob Hope

  Laughter, Forever, Balls

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• The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Giving

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• 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

  Team, Musician, Fans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My relationship with my parents is among the greatest gifts of my life.

  Christopher Castellani

  Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations. That my husband is the most honest, kind, hard-working, and genuine person, and I honestly don't know how I could ever live without him. That my parents love me and I love and appreciate them. That I hate doing taxes. That my biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people. That I love laughing, traveling, volunteering, and my friends. That my favorite smell is chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. That I am blessed.

  Trista Sutter

  Children, Husband, Hate

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• The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Love You, Unconditional Love

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• To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god.

  Celine Dion

  Funny, Niece, Dumb

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• 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, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

  Dante Alighieri

  Christianity, Creation, Goodness

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• I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving, I've Learned, I Can

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Flower, Giving, Joy

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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