„God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.“
— James Clavell American novelist 1921 - 1994
André Delambre
The Fly (1958)
„The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.“
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.
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— Auguste Rodin French sculptor 1840 - 1917
Quelle: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 7
„The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.“
— Lois McMaster Bujold Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949
Quelle: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 157
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Quelle: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
„It’s a gift. (Artemis)
Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)“
— Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965
Quelle: Acheron
„God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.“
— Meister Eckhart German theologian 1260 - 1328
As translated in The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose (1991) edited by Stephen Mitchell, p. 115
„Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.“
— Anthony Robbins Author, actor, professional speaker 1960
— Henry Clay Trumbull Union Army chaplain 1830 - 1903
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 221.
„Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.“
— Carlos Castaneda, buch The Wheel of Time
Quelle: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)
„The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.“
— Orson Scott Card, buch Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
„Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.“
Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.
— Horace, buch Satires
Book I, satire ix, line 59
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)
„Machines are as nothing without men. Men are as nothing without morale.“
— Ernest King United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations 1878 - 1956
Graduation address at the United States Naval Academy, 16 June 1942, as quoted by Robert A. Fitton (editor) in Leadership: Quotations From the Military Tradition (1990), p. 193
1940s
„Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.“
— Florence Nightingale English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing 1820 - 1910
„… a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.“
— Aimee Bender Novelist, short story writer 1969
Quelle: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
„You marry to be worthy of a gift, and want to say so out loud, but without shouting.“
— John Leonard American critic, writer, and commentator 1939 - 2008
"Next" (p. 5)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)
Kontext: You marry to be worthy of a gift, and want to say so out loud, but without shouting. One doesn't shout a prayer. Marriage is one of the few ceremonies left to us about which it is impossible — or at least self-demeaning — to be cynical.
„Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.“
— May Sarton American poet, novelist, and memoirist 1912 - 1995
