True Gifts Quotes

• Hold a true friend with both your hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Friendship, Thank You, True Friend

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• GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.

  Kim Coles

  Gratitude, Believe, Self

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

  Cathy Lee Crosby

  Lying, Learning, Needs

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• The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Portions

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Adversity, Stronger

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• We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

  James E. Faust

  Christmas, Heart, Differences

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• You can't believe your own hype, or your own worst moments. Neither is as important as knowing your "why." The harder the challenges are, the more this matters. It is a true gift that I'm so grateful for to my core when someone else sees and acknowledges my why. But you can't expect it or need it. Your ability to really see yourself can power you through.

  Jane Park

  Grateful, Believe, Worst Moments

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Social Values, Imagination, Design

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• Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apology, Jewels, Portions

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Joy is the true gift of Christmas.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Joy

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Mary”, USCCB

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• I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Love You, Past

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• It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Lying, Power, Men

  Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

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• Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

  Mary Pipher

  Responsibility, Thinking, Maturity

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• I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

  Marie Curie

  Dream, Husband, Heaven

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• We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.

  Brian Henson

  Clever, Condolences, Joy

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• I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God.

  Wynonna Judd

  Believe, Musical Ability, Belive

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• Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Giving, Joy, Gestures

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• Charm is the true gift of the Fairies.

  Charles Perrault

  Fairy, Charm

  Charles Perrault, Sally Holmes (1993). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Peace, Lying

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.46, Penguin

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• Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Love, Beautiful, Art

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