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1 " Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free. "
― Shannon L. Alder
2 " Well, no one says you can be happy about everything," I said. " I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he's evil. This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin. "
3 " About your easy heads my prayersI said with syllables of clay.What gift, I asked, shall I bring nowBefore I weep and walk away?Take, they replied, the oak and laurel.Take our fortune of tears and liveLike a spendthrift lover. All we askIs the one gift you cannot give. "
― Tana French , In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
4 " And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old—or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give. "
― Mary Oliver , Dog Songs
5 " The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily. "
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
6 " When you can look into the mirror and see yourself as the beautiful woman I do, then I'll know I've given you the one gift no one can ever take away. "
― Michelle Hughes , Cherished (Master of My Heart, #1)
