#gift

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#gift #god #imagination #power-of-imagination #art

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #creativity #gift-books #jepson-center-for-the-arts #national-poetry-month

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#gifts #magic #past #possibilities #stories

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#beloved #christ #gifts #gives #grace

...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard... ↗

— Morgan Matson

#gift #practice #talent #crime

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gift #light #darkness

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#giving #present

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#talent #talent

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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