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Gifts

«The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.»

Author: Elizabeth Hardwick | About: Experience, Gifts, Knowledge, Morality, Passion, Reading | Keywords: cheap, consoled, consoles, consoling, distracting, distracts, excites, illumination, illuminations, wide

«The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace»

Author: John Owen | About: Gifts, Houses | Keywords: battlement, battlements, oftentimes, ornaments, privileges, The Rock, The Sand, windows

«The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.»

Author: Meryl Streep | About: Gifts | Keywords: empathy, human beings

«The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.»

Author: Richard Moss | About: Attention, Gifts | Keywords: another, attention, attentions, gift, give, greatest, purity, The Greatest, with attention

«The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.»

Author: Sue Atchley Ebaugh | About: Gifts | Keywords: rapt

«The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.»

Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo | About: Gifts | Keywords: bit, of your own, the least bit

«The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum»

Author: Alexis Carrel | About: Beauty, Gifts | Keywords: cerebrum, cerebrums, multiple, noblest

«The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.»