{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...","author":"Anuradha Bhattacharyya","tags":["best-inspirational","excellence","exception","exceptional","gift","gift-giving","gifting","life-and-living","life-philosophy","life","love","love","love-story","things"],"id":7796,"author_id":"Anuradha+Bhattacharyya"},{"text":"This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves– that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become “something”. It begins when we decide to pick our gift and align it with it’s purpose.","author":"Chinonye J. Chidolue","tags":["audience","audience","audience","gifting","impact","impacting-lives","life-lessons","life","purpose","purpose-driven-life","purpose-of-life","purpose","purposeful-living","success","successful-living"],"id":19594,"author_id":"Chinonye+J.+Chidolue"},{"text":"Go, ' he said. 'This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["courage","faith","gifting","journey","love"],"id":25174,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.","author":"Robert Watson","tags":["gifting","talent"],"id":53067,"author_id":"Robert+Watson"},{"text":"You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","employment","finance","gift","gifting","gifts","great","greatness","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","purpose","talent","time","work"],"id":91521,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Don’t just make use of a gift, look inside you and maximize others.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","employment","finance","gift","gifting","job","jobless","joblessness","life","maximization-of-potential","money","purpose","self-discovery","time","work"],"id":99945,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["gifting","give","life","living"],"id":163772,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets you up on greater grounds of success more than you ever anticipated.","author":"Chinonye J. Chidolue","tags":["audience","audience","audience","gifting","impact","impacting-lives","life-lessons","life","purpose","purpose-driven-life","purpose-of-life","purpose","purposeful-living","success","successful-living"],"id":217731,"author_id":"Chinonye+J.+Chidolue"},{"text":"I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christmas","frivolous","gift","gifting","gifts","giving","life","obesity","trinkets"],"id":296558,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"You must develop your skills around your calling.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","calling","develop","development","employment","finance","gift","gifting","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","purpose","skills","time","work"],"id":398387,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}