Precious Gifts Quotes

• I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Giving, Discovering, Values

  Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Friendship, Mindfulness, Mindful Living

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.20, Penguin

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• Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Being Thankful, Gold, Mountain

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• The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

  Cornel West

  Inspirational, Giving, Purpose Driven Life

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• Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Inspirational, People, Giving

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.31, PuddleDancer Press

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• The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.

  Deepak Chopra

  Appreciation, Caring, Giving

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 26, 2011

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• Time is a very precious gift-
  so precious that it is only given to
  us moment by moment.

  Amelia Barr

  Moments, Given

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• We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

  Simone Weil

  Waiting

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.35, Routledge

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• The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Giving, Attention

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• Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Inspirational, Uncertainty

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• We take a lot of things for granted in our lives, such as gravity, air, daylight and time. Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant non-renewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully; intentionally, wisely and productively.

  Tommy Barnett

  Air, Use, Daylight

  Tommy Barnett (2013). “The Power of a Half Hour: Take Back Your Life Thirty Minutes at a Time”, p.21, WaterBrook

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• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us

  Samantha Abeel

  Unique, Weakness, Packages

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Character, Responsibility

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• ...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Memories, Past

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• The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

  Marie Curie

  Inspiration, Grace, States

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• It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Appreciation, Love Life, Hands

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• Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

  Regina Brett

  Future, Each Day, May

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Reflection, Mind

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• Character is the most precious gift of education.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Character

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• The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Giving, Attention

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2014

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• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  Washington Irving

  Attitude, Sea, Weather

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.263, Penguin

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• Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

  Maria Shriver

  Mother, Journey, Giving

  "Maria Shriver: The gift my mother gave me" by Maria Shriver, www.today.com. May 7, 2013.

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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Grief

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• For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

  Michael Milken

  Family, Lost Love, Father

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