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Gifting Quotes (page 18)

Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've..."
It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. Ursula K. Le Guin
For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards " fuming," you will say "fuming-furious;" if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards "furious," you will say "furious-fuming;" but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say "frumious. Lewis Carroll
You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me. Rumi
If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love. Marianne Williamson
His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. Angela Carter
Stephen King quote: "Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it."
Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it. Stephen King
All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us. George Santayana
Oprah Winfrey quote: "One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided..."
One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided attention. Oprah Winfrey
Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available. Alain de Botton
I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution. Albert Einstein
Stephen King quote: "Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, likediamonds, was..."
Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, likediamonds, was forever. Stephen King
As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the small, fat, timid boy.(...) But then he jumped into the crystal-clear water... He drank till his thrist was quenched. And joy filled him from head to foot, the joy of living and the joy of being himself. He was new born. And the best part of it was that he was now the very person he wanted to be. If he had been free to choose, he would... Michael Ende
The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts. Isak Dinesen
Tennessee Williams quote: "Young, gifted, and destitute..."
Young, gifted, and destitute... Tennessee Williams
Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom. David Foster Wallace

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