Biggest Gifts Quotes

#1. I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

Leslie Jamison

#2. Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

Matthew Fox

#3. It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war - it was part of the point.

Johann Hari

#4. When I look back and reflect even to this day I made the decision to stop feeling sorry for myself and to move forward even when I felt like I didn't want to

Shellie Palmer

#5. We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Joseph Addison

#6. One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.

Rafe Spall

#7. If you bring something up, it's imperative to explain your thought.

Keith Grafman

#8. Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#9. Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is far from Me.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. (One more time, she went back inside before she rejoined him.)
I swear I'd be wearing a pumpkin on my shoulders. (Sunshine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Death is pretty final./I'm collecting vinyl./I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world/'cause if heaven does exists/with a kickin' playlist/I don't wanna miss it at the end of the world

Michael Stipe

#12. I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future.

Erica Jong

#13. For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.

Shameik Moore

#14. I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.

Mike Bass

#15. I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

Dorothy Parker

#16. Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#17. Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#18. My biggest concern about the effects of the prosperity movement is that it diminishes Christ by making him less central and less satisfying than his gifts.

John Piper

#19. One of the biggest gifts that you can give your daughter is to show her that you love what you do.

Maggie Wilderotter