Talents (Gifts)

• The constant duty of every person to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. — John Ruskin

• Neglect not the gift that is in thee. — Bible, New Testament, Timothy

• The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. — John Ruskin

• It is a pleasant fact that you will know no man long, however low in the social scale, however poor, miserable, interperate, and worthless he may appear to be, a mere burden to society, but you will find at last that there is something which he understands and can do better than any other. — Thoreau

• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Picasso

• Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. — R. Buckminster Fuller

• He who is able to write a book and does not write it, is as one who has lost a child. — Hasidic Saying or Nachman of Bratslav (c. 1800)

• If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. — The Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas

• Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. — The Bible, Luke 12:48