#Gift

"There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same."

"Being present to yourself in love and with kindness is the ultimate gift."

"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."

"Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends."

"I said I made a special trip to get her favorite item, because it sounded more romantic than admitting I randomly had it already. Now that’s love."

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]"

"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift."

"The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me."

"Love is the best gift because it’s free to give and priceless to receive."

"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given."

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

"Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us."

"Return something not for the possibility of a reward, but for the joy of giving a gift which you did not have to pay for."

"Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most."

"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."