“Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.”

“You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.”

“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

“..:The freedom to express is a gift. Never to be taken for granted but forever to be terish and use properly:..”

“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”

“Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift!”