#gifts

What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#believe #believe-and-achieve #change #christ-in-you #environment

Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gifts #giving #helping-others #inspirational #kindness

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#begins #clear #clear vision #day #did

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. ↗

— Ben Okri

#always #bit #bore #challenging #completely

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. ↗

— Sophocles

#gods #good #highest #mankind #plant

I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#greatest #greatest gifts #i #i think #leading

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#back #brings #gifts #great #hand

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#because #fan #gifts #give #give me

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cannot #comes #desire #entry #everyone

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. ↗

— Virgil

#even #fear #gifts #greeks #i