I don't want to have to inadvertently find a gift and go like, "What the hell is? Oh no, that's for me. " And then have to pretend like I'm surprised later. If I know where they're hidden, I will not look. I love presents and I hate faking surprises.
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.
The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.
The gift is for you. . . The surprise is for me.
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins. " I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.
See the gift that change delivers.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.
I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.
Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage. " If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!
Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.
Put yourself in the shoes of one of these oligarchs who has been given a gift of $10 billion. Russia is in a deep depression. Nobody's investing. There is a widespread political consensus that the way you got your wealth is illegitimate.
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.