gifts

Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light 'Tis with us perpetual night.

There is no beginning or end. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present.'

She looked at the crowd and she felt, simultaneously, astonishment that they should stare at her, when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible, and a sense of fitness that they should be here, that they should want to see it, because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

Beauty is the gift of God.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

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

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and . . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.