Thank you, ’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. “May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift”; “Beauty is in the eyes that find me pretty”; “May Allah never deny your prayer”; and so on, an infinite string of prayerful appreciation. Coming from such a culture, I have always found a mere “thank you” an insufficient expression that makes my voice sound miserly and ungrateful.” (169). . Susan Abulhawa
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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Mary Oliver
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Jim Valvano
Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
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More Quotes By Susan Abulhawa
We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.
The reverse side of love is unbearable loss.
I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably. Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.
She loved beyond measure, When I was young I thought her cold. But in time I came to understand that she was too tender for the world she’d been born into, ” I said. Sorrow gave Dalia an iron gift. Behind that hard shelter, sheloved...
