Your performance is not about you. It is about you giving the gift of your talent to your audience.
Your performance is not about you. It is about you giving the gift of your talent to your audience.
The Best Gift is love; truthful, unselfish, unconditional and inexhaustible. ~Carissa~
Cake and Life:
If you love someone enough, any kind of cake they bake for you will be wonderful, as it is.
If you love God, the Universe, enough, the life you are given starts to look better, as it is.
"Forgiveness of others is the second best gift you can give yourself.
Forgiveness of yourself is the best gift you can give yourself and the world.
So, forgive others and also, do not stop until you forgive yourself."
"Your purpose here on the Earth is to give the gifts that your soul desires to give; those that create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life, no matter what form they take."
If you're going to tally up things in life, tally up what others do for you, rather than what you do for others.
Look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are godless and foolish, and we don't understand that life is a paradise, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
An idea comes as close to something for nothing as you can get.
Do you measure your greatness more by your gifts or your possessions?
We all have different gifts and different ways of saying to the world who we are. The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling they are worthwhile.
Giving is a generative act. When you give of yourself something new comes in to being. Two people, who moments before were trapped in separate worlds of private cares, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing; warmth, even joy is created. The world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth, and a small miracle occurs. You must never underestimate this miracle. Too many good people think they have to become Mother Teresa or Albert Schweetzer, or even Santa Claus, and perform great acts if they are to be givers. They don't see the simple openings of the heart that can be practiced anywhere with almost anyone.
How will you know someone really loves if they only meet your expectations and not your needs
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach -- waiting for a gift from the sea.
The gift is in your thinking. The power in the dreams you dare.
What we are is God's gift to us; What we become is our gift to God.
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
"At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift--a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life."
~ Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence," commenting on "Authentic Happiness" by Martin Seligman
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
A man is the part he plays among his fellows. He is not isolated; he cannot be. His life is made up of the relations he bears to others - is made or marred by those relations, guided by them, judged by them, expressed in them. There is nothing else upon which he can spend his spirit - nothing else that we can see. It is by these he gets his spiritual growth; it is by these we see his character revealed, his purpose, his gifts. A few (men) act as those who have mastered the secrets of a serious art, with deliberate subordination of themselves to the great end and motive of the play. These have "found themselves," and have all the ease of a perfect adjustment.
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.
