Gift Quotes - Page 2

He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with its hidden gift of life. But that life was a deeply ambiguous life, a conjurer's trick, a crafty illusion based on an accidental property of the retina, which retained an image for a fraction of a second after the image was no longer present. On this frail fact was erected the entire structure of the cinema, that colossal confidence game. The animated cartoon was a far more honest expression of the cinematic illusion than the so-called realistic film, because the cartoon reveled in its own illusory nature, exulted in the impossible--indeed it claimed the impossible as its own, exalted it as its own highest end, found in impossibility, in the negation of the actual, its profoundest reason for being. The animated cartoon was nothing but the poetry of the impossible--therein lay its exhilaration and its secret melancholy. For this willful violation of the actual, while it was an intoxicating release from the constriction of things, was at the same time nothing but a delusion, an attempt to outwit mortality. As such it was doomed to failure. And yet it was desperately important to smash through the constriction of the actual, to unhinge the universe and let the impossible stream in, because otherwise--well, otherwise the world was nothing but an editorial cartoon.
Steven Millhauser
Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.
Kamand Kojouri
You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
From birth to death and further onAs we were born and introduced into this world,We had a gift hard to express by wordAnd somewhere in our continuous road,It kind of lost it sense and turned.There was that time we sure remember,When everything was now and 'till foreverChildren with no worries and no regrets,The only goal was making a few friends.But later on everything has changed,By minds that had it all arrangedTo bring the people into stress,Into creating their own mess.We have been slaved by our own mind,Turned into something out of our kindSlowly faded away from the present time,Forced to believe in lies, in fights and crime.They made it clearly a fight of the ego,A never ending war that won't just goThey made it a competitive game,To seek selfish materialistic fame.They turned us one against eachother,Man against man, brother against brotherDividing us by religion and skin color,Making us fight to death over a dollar.Making us lose ourselves in sadly thoughts,Wasting our days by living in the pastDepressed and haunted by the memories,And yet still hoping to fly in our dreams.Some of us tried learning how to dance,Step after step, giving our soul a new chanceSome of us left our ego vanish into sounds,Thus being aware of our natural bounce.Some tried expressing in their rhymes,The voice of a generation which never diesThey reached eternity through poetryLeaving the teachings that shall fulfill the prophecyOthers have found their way through spirituality,Becoming conscious of the human dualitySeeking the spiritual enlightenment,Of escaping an ego-oriented fightingScience, philosophy, religion,Try to explain the human origin.Maybe changes are yet to come,And it shall be better for someDeath's for the spirit not an end,But a relieving of the embodimentSo I believe that furthermore,We'll understand the power of our soulBut leaving behind all we know,And all that we might not yet knowIt all resumes to that certain truth,That we all seek to once conclude.
Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.
Oliver
I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I bought you something" Willows blurts out."You bought...What?"Willow closes her eyes for a second. She's a little surprised she's going to give it to him after all, but there's no going back now. She has to."At the bookstore." She reaches into her bag again, and pushes the package across the table towards him.Guy takes the book out of the bag slowly, Willow waits for him to look disappointed, to look confused that she would buy him such a battered, old-"I love it when used books have notes in the margins, it's the best," Guy says as he flips through the pages. "I always imagine who read it before me." He pauses and looks at one of Prospero's speeches. "I have way too much homework to read this now, but you know what? Screw it. I want to know why it's your favorite Shakespeare. Thank you, that was really nice of you. I mean, you really didn't have to.""But I did anyway," Willow says so quietly she's not even sure hears her.Hey," Guy frowns for a second. "You didn't write anything in here.""Oh, I didn't even think...I, well, I wouldn't even know what to write," Willow says shyly."Well, maybe you'll think of something later," he says.Willow watches Guy read the opening. There's no mistaking it. His smile is genuine, and she can't help thinking that if she can't make David look like this, at least she can do it for someone.
Julia Hoban
A sensitive woman is the greatest gift to a passionate man.
Lukhman Pambra
You should look inside of yourself and see the person who is there
Sunday Adelaja
You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based
Sunday Adelaja
If you work on yourself intellectually, you will be able to realize your potential
Sunday Adelaja
When you invest your life, you reproduce your life.
Sunday Adelaja
A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.
Bell Hooks
I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese.
Gail Honeyman
Always put your heart into and show commitment in whatever you do
Sunday Adelaja
Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do
Sunday Adelaja
The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.
Sunday Adelaja
Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.
Sunday Adelaja
It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them.
Sunday Adelaja
I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese.
Gail Honeyman
Invest in your purpose and land of promise
Sunday Adelaja
Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength
Sunday Adelaja
You need focus and concentration to be effective in life
Sunday Adelaja
Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone
Sunday Adelaja
Your destiny is connected with your calling
Sunday Adelaja
The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.
Sunday Adelaja
Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.
Sunday Adelaja
It is no use setting priorities if you won’t stick to them.
Sunday Adelaja
To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products through hard work.
Sunday Adelaja
Find out your talents and gifting and invest your whole time into perfecting them and becoming the best of yourself.
Sunday Adelaja
When you reproduce yourself, you don’t spend your life, you multiply it.
Sunday Adelaja
The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it.
Sunday Adelaja
If there is any church service that you attend and it quickens your purpose and adds value to your life, if that church gives you some insight and understanding and a picture of how to do things better and become a solution provider to the problems of humanity in your country, then you can keep attending such a church.
Sunday Adelaja
For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly.
Sunday Adelaja
When you invest your time you will notice that you are being fruitful and that you are multiplying your life.
Sunday Adelaja
For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.
Sunday Adelaja
To see time and life correctly, you must realize that whenever you waste a second, you are wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church.
Sunday Adelaja
If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time.
Sunday Adelaja
If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.
Sunday Adelaja
Do not allow your life to diminish without reproducing it.
Sunday Adelaja
It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.
Sunday Adelaja
Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing life.
Sunday Adelaja
For you to be able to be fruitful, to multiply and saturate the earth with your products, you have to first know how to properly use the currency of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time!
Sunday Adelaja
The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfilment of your purpose.
Sunday Adelaja
To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.
Sunday Adelaja
Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of worth.
Sunday Adelaja
Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time.
Sunday Adelaja
Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it.
Sunday Adelaja
You must stop living under the pressure of the environment and surrounding and culture and tradition.
Sunday Adelaja
When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!
Sunday Adelaja
Do not watch your life melt away just like that for life is too precious to waste it doing nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
Do not waste time for that is equal to wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
Time is not rigid” It is destructible. It melts away before you know it.
Sunday Adelaja

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