I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.
Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Know your gifts and share them.
Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
I don't give any gifts to the rich.
The gifts that Yeshua left in the earth realm to enforce His authority were apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. The gift that gets controlled or stopped, which hinders the others from coming into fullness, is the prophet's gift and authority. Apostles will attempt to build a pattern without present revelation, and end up building man's model.
I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you. And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
When you've been blessed, you have to share your gifts, and you also have to help others give their gifts away.
The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.