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A gift is a present given for free

• Gift: A thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present.  Oxford Dictionary
• Gift: A present or something that is given.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Gift: Something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned.  Dictionary.com
• Appreciation,  Gratitude,  Approach life as a celebration,  Enjoyment,  Fun,  Positivity

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Life is a great gift …

• The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. Leo Babauta
• Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. The gifts of nature, sunlight and the sounds of birds singing. Deepak Chopra
• Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy
• Life is a gift and a challenge. Jay Payleitner
• Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. Mary Manin Morrissey
• Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.
• Life IS the gift you were given, so stop waiting around for your dues. Use it wisely and you’ll gift yourself abundantly.  Michelle Geaney
• Each day, accept everything that comes to you as a gift. At night, mentally give it all back. In this way, you become free. Daniel Levin
• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Gratitude,  Appreciation

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… and the world is abundant with gifts of all kinds

• The world is an abundant place. Abundant with opportunity, abundant with good fortune, abundant with ideas, and abundant with love. Reach into that abundance and take what is rightfully yours. It is your inheritance, gifted to you by God. Let yourself have it. Neale Donald Walsch
• The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. Sue Monk Kidd
• All that we behold is full of blessings. William Wordsworth

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You have all the gifts you need for a full life

• For the warrior, there is no “better” or “worse”; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path. Paulo Coelho
• Everything I need is already within me. Abraham-Hicks
• It is a tremendous fact that all you need is already within you. Wallace D. Wattles
• We search for everything we believe we don’t have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. Brian Tracy

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1.  Love

• Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love.
• Love is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift. Kurt Langner
• Love is always bestowed as a gift, freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love. Leo Buscaglia
• A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.  Thomas á Kempis
• Love the giver more than the gift. Brigham Young
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2.  Joy

• The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you. It will produce wonders in your life. Jack Boland
• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. Albert Einstein
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3.  Compassion, empathy and understanding

• Compassion is the most precious of all gifts. In times of sorrow and bewilderment, it is what restores us and offers refuge. It is the force of empathy in your own heart that allows you to reach out and touch the broken heart of another.  Christina Feldman
• The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. Meryl Streep
• Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others. Janette Oke
• Compassion,  Empathy,  Understanding

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4.  Your talents and passions

• Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. Barbara Sher
• We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.  Mary Dunbar
• We all have special gifts, unique imaginations, our little bit of genius: the spark of life that’s wholly ours. Richard Koch
• Everyone has a purpose in life … a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Deepak Chopra
• My talents are in demand, and my unique gifts are appreciated by those around me. Louise L. Hay
• We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Mary Dunbar
• Everyone is gifted – but some people never open their package.
• It’s actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value. Jonathan Ive
• Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. Barbara Sher
• Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us. Elizabeth O’Connor
• I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.  Buckminster Fuller
• Talent,  Passion

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5.  The great gift of today

• Each day comes bearing its’ own gifts. Untie the ribbons. Ruth Ann Schabacker
• Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Each day provides its own gifts. Marcus Aurelius
• Every day is a gift – even if it sucks. Sherry Hochman
• Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights into His great truths. Dale Evans Rogers
• Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift – today. Steve Maraboli
• We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived. E.B. Spredemann
• Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer! Steve Maraboli
• On awakening, bless the day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessing will call forth; for to bless is to acknowlege the unlimited good that is embedded in the very texture of the universe and awaiting each and all. Pierre Pradervand
• The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.  Bob Moawad
• Today is a gift I honor by fully living it. Mary Anne Radmacher
• Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities. Robert Holden, Ph.D.
• Embrace the gift of today

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6.  The gift of this very moment

• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That’s why we call it the present.   Babatunde Olatunji
• I give myself the gift of freedom from the past and move with joy into the now. Louise L. Hay
• The greatest challenge as human beings is to be here now. Be in the moment. Remember, you sent your Self this moment as a gift. Neale Donald Walsch
• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. Barbara De Angelis
• Each moment a blessing of abundance, each breath a prayer of thanksgiving. Michael Rawls
• Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings. Oprah Winfrey
• Give up the search for something to happen and fall in love, fall intimately in love with the gift of presence in ‘what is.’ Tony Parsons
• Now is a priceless gift

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7.  Whatever unfolds in this very moment

• Each circumstance is a gift, and in each experience is hidden a treasure. Neale Donald Walsch
• When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it’s difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson. John-Roger
• Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing. Nothing occurs in your life by chance. Nothing. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. Nothing at all. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect. It will be no less a gift. Neale Donald Walsch
• All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that. Neale Donald Walsch
• Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. Horace

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8.  The freedom to choose and the great power this affords you

• Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Free Choice is the act of pure creation, the signature of God, and your gift, your glory, and your power forever and ever. Neale Donald Walsch
• I truly want what you truly want—nothing different and nothing more. Don’t you see that is My greatest gift to you? Neale Donald Walsch
• Life offers two great gifts–time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us. Richard I. Winword
• We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• You have control over three things: what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life. Sonya Friedman
• Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity – if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom. Dwight David Eisenhower
• You are given the gift of God, you create your reality according to your beliefs. Yours is the creative energy that makes your world. Jane Roberts
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9.  Intuition

• By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self. Susan Jeffers
• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein
• By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self. Susan Jeffers
• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner. Jonas Salk
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10.  Imagination and fantasy

• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
• If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities. Hiroko Sakai
• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
• Imagination,  Fantasy

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11.  Creativity

• Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence. Sir Ken Robinson
• Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. Julia Cameron
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12.  Wisdom

• The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.  Nāgārjuna
• Wisdom

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13.  Curiosity and intelligence

• My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift . . . if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. Carl Sagan
• Curiosity,  Intelligence

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14.  Time

• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence–neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish–it is an imponderably valuable gift. Maya Angelou
• Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It’s a part of your life that you will never get back. Gloria Tesch
• I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. Ingrid Betancourt
• When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Rick Warren
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15.  Health

• Most people count good health as the greatest blessing, but only when they are sick.
• Health, the greatest of all we count as blessings. Ariphron
• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha
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16.  Family

• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Burton Hillis
• You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.  Desmond Tutu
• The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. Kendall Hailey
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17.  Children

• Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much. Lisa Wingate
• Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? Marcus Tullius Cicero
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18.  Friendship

• A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
• Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. Marian Anderson
• Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. Thomas Hughes
• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God’s gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. Frances Farmer
• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach
• Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. Thomas Hughes
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19.  Music

• Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. Martin Luther
• Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. Walter Savage Landor
• You all have a gift. It’s free. It’s the gift of song. Christine E. Schulze
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20.  Beauty

• In all ranks of life, the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Beauty is the gift of God. Aristotle
• The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. Alexis Carrel
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21.  Will power and self-discipline

• The gift of self-discipline is that it has the power to take you beyond the reasoning of temporary emotion to freedom. Think of how empowered you’ve felt on occasions when you haven’t given in to the ‘I don’t feel like it’ syndrome and honored your commitment to yourself. What does not feeling like it have to do with it? The combination of love for something with the willingness to do what it takes to practice it—discipline—results in freedom. Michael Beckwith
• Will power,  Self-control,  Self-discipline

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22.  The amazing human body

• My body is the temple of my soul. It is a gift from God. If I look after it, it will provide me with radiant energy to fulfil my purpose in life.
• If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman
• The human body is the best work of art. Jess C. Scott
• Your body is a beautiful manifestation powered by spirit. Mike Dolan
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23.  Humour and laughter

• Humour is mankind’s greatest blessing.   Mark Twain
• Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it. L. M. Montgomery
• When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering. Papaji
• Laughter is the honey of life. Danielle LaPorte
• If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. Charles M. Schulz
• Humour,  Laughter

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24.  Wonder

• As children, we had a sense of wonder. Our eyes were wide open and drinking in the gifts we beheld… The gift of wonder God gave us as children was meant to be kept alive. Instead, we have let wonder go to sleep. Edward Hays
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25.  The ability to feel

• Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God. Paulo Coelho
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26.  Surprise

• One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. It’s a good thing! JoyBell C.
• Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak
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27.  Problems and challenges

• Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours. Noela Evans
• Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow. Tony Robbins
• If blame is one of the clouds obscuring your inner happiness, try it yourself. Rather than asking “Who’s to blame?” start asking “What can I learn from this? What is the gift in this for me?” Marci Shimoff
• In all adversities, there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden. Swami Chinmayananda
• Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. William Gaines
• No matter how bad things look, you are always being blessed. Ask yourself, ‘What is the blessing here?’ and express gratitude for the awareness that comes to you. Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. Michael J. Gelb
• That’s the fascinating thing about problems. When taken on, they are life-changing gifts. Steve Chandler
• The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller
• There is always a gift in any challenge. Bronnie Ware
• There is no crisis without a gift for you in its hands. We seek those crises because we need their gifts. Richard Bach
• Today I will practice gratitude. I will get in the habit of saying thank you, even for the “problems” in my life, because these challenges are valuable lessons I can learn from. Gratitude is the key that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts. Melody Beattie
• With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. Wayne Dyer
• If you study the lives of successful people, you will find that often their success was not in spite of their life challenges but because of them. They took what happened to them and used it to help them grow. They stopped telling everyone how much they were wronged and began to look for the blessings in their challenges. Will Bowen
• Every burden is a blessing. Robert H. Schuller
• Challenge,  Adversity,  Problem solving

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28.  Your flaws and imperfections

• My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.  Mohandas K. Gandhi
• This process seemed miraculous to me. So, I made a list of all the parts of myself I didn’t like, and worked on finding the gifts in them. As soon as I was able to see the positive and the negative value of each aspect of myself, I was able to drop my defensiveness and allow these parts to exist freely. It became clear that the process was not about getting rid of things we dislike in ourselves, but about finding the positive side of these aspects and integrating it into our lives. Debbie Ford
• We live under the pretence that in order for something to be divine it has to be perfect. We are mistaken. In fact, the exact opposite is true. To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: the positive and the negative, the good and the bad, the holy and the devil. When we take the time to discover our shadow and its gifts we will understand what Jung meant by, ‘The gold is in the dark.’ Each of us needs to find that gold in order to reunite with our sacred self. Debbie Ford

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29.  Pain

• The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain.  By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it.  We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.  Matthew Fox
• You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts. Ken Page
• Pain,  Suffering

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30.  Reading

• 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. Elizabeth Hardwick
• A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor
• Reading is a gift. It’s something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on. Richard Carlson
• What a blessing it is to love books as I love them; – to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Yet more gifts that life brings

• A hug is a great gift – one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.
• Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.  Rita Schiano
• Faith is different from proof; the latter is human; the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal
• Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. Margaret Lee Runbeck
• The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts. Gautama Buddha
• I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. Peggy Noonan
• Reason is God’s crowning gift to man. Sophocles
• Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. Elie Wiesel
• To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness – these are the gifts which money cannot buy. Robert Louis Stevenson
• Change always comes bearing gifts. Price Pritchett
• God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Native American Prayer
• Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life, it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. Freeman Dyson

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Be consciously grateful for the gifts that life brings you …

• God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say, “thank you?”   William A. Ward
• Gratitude goes beyond the ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past, I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. Henri J.M. Nouwen
• I am thankful for my gifts today. My heart is filled with gratitude! John F. Demartini
• Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William A. Ward
• One of life’s gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard. Robert Moskin
• Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
• Positive thinking is a mindset in which you recognize your blessings more than you pay attention to daily hassles. Ed Diener & Robert Biswas-Diener
• Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
• Gratitude,  Appreciation

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… by making your gratitude into a daily habit

• One of the best ways to cultivate gratitude is to establish a daily practice in which you remind yourself of the gifts, grace, benefits, and good things you enjoy. One of the best ways to do this is keeping a daily journal in which you record the blessings you are grateful for. When we are grateful, we affirm that a source of goodness exists in our lives. By writing each day, we magnify and expand upon these sources of goodness. Robert Emmons
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Gratitude will keep gifts flowing into your life…

• If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything, This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything. Alan Cohen
• The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings. Betty J. Eadie
• An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. John Templeton
• Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
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… especially the gift of happiness

• The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. William Penn
• When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson
• You’ll be much happier if you spend as much time thinking about your blessings as you do about your troubles. John Wooden
• If you really want to develop more faith and devotion, then think about the great benefits and gifts you have been constantly receiving. The more you think of them, the more you feel grateful, the more you feel devoted, the more you feel love. Sri Swami Satchidananda
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Envy comes from not appreciating your own gifts

• Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. Jean Vanier
• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin
• When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there’s no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn’t fit me. William P. Smith
• Envy,  Appreciation

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Realise that you are the greatest gift of all – a gift to be shared with the world

• The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.   Lloyd John Ogilvie
• I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world. Ernest Holmes
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Use the gift you are to bless the world and the people in your life

• Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us. Paulo Coelho
• We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place or not to bother. Jane Goodall
• Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give. David R. Hawkins
• You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world. Deepak Chopra
• Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well. Alexandra Katehakis
• There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet. Clara Kramer
• When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. Joel Osteen
• Make a promise to stop getting in the way of the blessing that you are. Jonathan H. Ellerby

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Growing and fulfilling your potential is your gift back to the world

• Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins
• What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfilment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfilment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. Joseph Campbell
• What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God. Hans Urs von Balthasar
• What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.  Eleanor Powell
• If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self- transformation. Lao Tzu
• The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. Buddha
• Growth,  Potential

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Share your gifts through generous giving

• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Pierre Corneille
• The best gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. Seneca
• If you are suffering right now because you feel that there is something that you want that you don’t have, notice that this comes from lack. Instead, what if you turned it around? What if you asked, “What gifts do I have, right now, that can be of service to others?” In other words, you go from a desire to get, to a desire to give. Giving opens the heart, wanting closes it. So, when you give, all benefit! Michael Jeffreys
• Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Deepak Chopra
• The superior man is not seeking fulfilment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving. David Deida
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Discover your talents and gifts and share them with the world

• Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Bascaglia
• The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is giving your gift away. David Viscott
• Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.  Leo Buscaglia
• Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold
• Everybody has a strength to share. If we can tap into that – if people can find ways to contribute whatever their particular unique talent or gift is, then, that really can change the world. Bill Shore
• Everyone has a purpose in life … a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Deepak Chopra
• Each of us has a gift, a talent to give back to the world. It may be small or large, it does not matter. The sacred song is our unique gift, our purpose, and each of us was born to discover and share it with the world. John Kehoe
• You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can’t do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to.  Morgan Matson
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile Zola
• Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold
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Realise that your happiness is a gift to the world

• Your happiness is your gift to the world. Robert Holden
• Each moment that you are happy is a gift to the rest of the world. Harry Palmer
• Of all the gifts you have offered to God, your happiness-gift he treasures most. Sri Chinmoy
• The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness. Esther Hicks
• Even when we are encouraging you to selfishly seek your own joy, we are actually saying to you: Your joy is the greatest gift that you can give to anyone. Because unless you are in your joy, you have nothing to give, anyway. Abraham-Hicks
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Give the gift of love

• 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
• If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald
• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.  Jean Anouilh
• May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love. L.O. Baird
• The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It’s the only thing, ultimately, that really matters. Joy Gardner
• The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy
• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
• If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish your own. These are the gifts that you can give. Gary Zukav
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Give the gift of self esteem

• Do not let a moment go by in which you have an opportunity to tell someone how magnificent they are. Give people the gift of self- esteem, and you will have given them a gift that many connot find a way to give themselves. Yet when they find themselves through their own grandest idea of who they really are, they are lost no more, for you have returned them to themselves. Neale Donald Walsch
• I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you. Blaise Pascal
• For the greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you. To need you for nothing. Neale Donald Walsch
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Give the gift of attention

• The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. May Sarton
• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is…our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh
• To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the Universe. Eckhart Tolle
• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. Jim Rohn
• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. Jim Rohn
• The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence.  Sue Atchley Ebaugh
• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Weil
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Give the gift of your smile

• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa
• Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give. Rabbi Nachman
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Give these gifts to your children

• If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. Carol Dweck
• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley
• I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt
• If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. Bruce Barton

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Most of all, be a gift to yourself

• See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation –   to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• The most important gift we can give ourselves is the commitment to living our authentic life. Robin Sharma
• The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. Anthony J. D’Angelo
• Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self-love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine. Melody Beattie

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• A thick skin is a gift from God.  Konrad Adenauer
• Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves. Jarod Kintz
• Conceit: God’s gift to little men   Bruce Barton
• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.  Charles Kingsley
• If every day is a gift, I’d like a receipt for Monday. I want to exchange it for another Friday.
• If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man’s most precious gifts — a selective memory. Jim Fiebig
• Love is the most precious gift you could ever possibly hope to steal. Some women foolishly do not leave their rib cages locked at night. Jarod Kintz
• My parents always said that knowledge was the best gift they could give me, probably because they were too cheap to buy me Christmas or Birthday presents. Jarod Kintz
• The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. Johnny Carson
• Trying to get a little kid dressed is like gift-wrapping an octopus.  Nova Adams
• Xylophone: Small toy musical instrument often given as gifts to children who show their appreciation by playing the stupid thing constantly over and over all day long; see also “drums.”

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