Gifts Quotes - Page 2

How generously they shower us with food, literally giving themselves so that we can live. But in the giving their lives are also ensured. Our taking returns benefit to them in the circle of life making life, the chain of reciprocity. Living by the precepts of the Honorable Harvest—to take only what is given, to use it well, to be grateful for the gift, and to reciprocate the gift

Robin Wall Kimmerer

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The gifts of God that are hidden within us are designed not only for our own needs but also forthe needs of others.

Sunday Adelaja

God gives abilities, talents and gifts to help you get established in your territory.

Sunday Adelaja

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

David Gerrold

If a gift has come to you wrapped in obligations and tied tightly with a ribbon of guilt, then it's not really a gift at all. It's a manipulation. A gift should be something freely given that enhances your life and reminds you lovingly of the giver. If it's not, you simply should not give it a place in your home.

Peter Walsh

The gift blesses the giver.

Hilary Mantel

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

Robert Schumann

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

John Wyndham

oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.

Cecelia Ahern

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

Alice Clayton

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Jerome

In this city [Palermo] . . . it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.

Gianni Riotta

All other businesses we do for living and for leaving good and great footprints are good! In fact, we must not let our gifts and talents be idle, but in all our endeavors we must not forget that there is one more noble business than any, and that is touching and saving lives for the Kingdom of God, in truth and in spirit, and proclaiming the coming of Jesus Christ with all due diligence, understanding, humility, courage and fortitude!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Cited from Chuck Palahniuk, 2003 - do not suffer do not rejoice, be not complimented or offended by such gifts. Judge not, lest ye be judged (Ejump, 2017)

ejump - 2017

At least you've brought gifts. What's in the basket?"She rummaged through the contents. "A few sweetmeats and lozenges. Packets of raisins. But mostly it's Aunt Thea's surplus cosmetics and remedies. She sends away for every product advertised in every ladies' magazine. I like to see them put to some use."He blinked at her. "These are your gifts?""Your men have depleted our stores of food, and I didn't have time to prepare anything else.""What are they supposed to do with-" he held up a brown bottle and peered at the label- "Dr. Jacobs' Miracle Elixir?" He plucked a small jar out next. "Excelsior Blemish Cream?""Women are women, Logan. Every girl needs a bit of luxury and a chance to feel pretty now and then.

Tessa Dare

Peter, Adam's Son," said Father Christmas."Here, sir," said Peter."These are your presents," was the answer, "and they are tools, not toys. The time to use them is perhaps near at hand. Bear them well." With these words he handed to Peter a shield and a sword. The shield was the color of silver and across it there ramped a red lion, as bright as a ripe strawberry at the moment when you pick it. The hilt of the sword was of gold and it had a sheath and a sword belt and everything it needed, and it was just the right size and weight for Peter to use. Peter was silent and solemn as he received these gifts, for he felt they were a very serious kind of present."Susan, Eve's Daughter," said Father Christmas. "These are for you," and he handed her a bow and a quiver full of arrows and a little ivory horn. "You must use the bow only in great need," he said, "for I do not mean you to fight in the battle. It does not easily miss. And when you put this horn to your lips and blow it, then, wherever you are, I think help of some kind will come to you."Last of all he said, "Lucy, Eve's Daughter," and Lucy came forward. He gave her a little bottle of what looked like glass (but people said afterwards that it was made of diamond) and a small dagger. "In this bottle," he said, "there is a cordial made of the juice of one of the fire-flowers that grow on the mountains of the sun. If you or any of your friends is hurt, a few drops of this will restore them. And the dagger is to defend yourself at great need. For you also are not to be in the battle.""Why, sir?" said Lucy. "I think- I don't know- but I think I could be brave enough.""That is not the point," he said. "But battles are ugly when women fight.

C.S. Lewis

God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love and His presence into the land where we are called

Sunday Adelaja

There is no greater gift like LOVE.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Shed the yesteryears, embrace the present as a gift and the future as a possibility

Val Uchendu

You don't wear jewelry, do you? Besides your wedding ring, I mean?''Now often. If is not that I disapprove. I simply don't take the time to bother with it. I've been given a few trinkets over the years, but rarely wear them.' Thora looked down at her hand, the plain thin wedding band, the unadorned wrist, and a memory struck her. She said, 'Frank gave me a gift once - a find gold bracelet with a blue enamel heart dangling from it. He said it was to remind me that I was more than his helpmeet and housekeeper, but also an attractive woman. I was sure I'd break the delicate chain, and the heart clacked against the desk whenever I wrote in the ledger. So I put it back in its box, and there it has remained ever since.'Nan said gently, 'We've all been given gifts, Thors, and ought not to hide them away. They remind us that we are blessed and loved. They give pleasure to those who see them - especially to the one who bestowed the gift in the first place.

Julie Klassen

But...what makes you Nathan--what makes you so special--is that you are both White Witch and Black Witch, both dark and full of light. That's what I love about you. What I've always loved. And I love you still, Nathan, and I know I always will. But you're changing. And now...now what I fear is that you'll get the amulet and you'll hone the Gifts you took from your father. You'll be invulnerable and you'll kill more people, many, many more people. I fear you won't be able to stop and you'll lose yourself completely. And then I'll come to dread you too.

Sally Green

I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.

Sara Douglass

In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an object: it is inseparable from the concrete relation in which it is exchanged, the transferential pact that it seals between two persons: it is thus not independent as such. It has, properly speaking, neither use value nor (economic) exchange value. The object given has symbolic exchange value.

Jean Baudrillard

He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.

Phaedra Patrick

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.

Vann Chow

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Audrey Hepburn

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Seneca

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

Thomas à Kempis

They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

Terry Pratchett

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Gene Wolfe

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare

Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually redonates the money, or uses the accolades as a foot in the door for more activism and awareness. A plack on the wall won’t change the world; it only shows your devotion.

Shannon L. Alder

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

Aldous Huxley

One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis

Sunday Adelaja

Only when you cultivate your talents and gifts you prosper

Sunday Adelaja

See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is ...acknowledging everyone's beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house. Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty. Men use to tell us that we love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us: what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.

Bryant McGill

Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

Ann Voskamp

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

Ann Voskamp

Recognize that you are enough, and that all external gifts are simply extra blessings.

Bryant McGill

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount one of gifts, but in the amount one is loved.

Todd Stocker

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

Patti Digh

Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.

Tony D'Souza

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

Jeff Goins

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille

Oda once said that when you speak excessively, it isn't necessarily communicating,” Jimmi says as he hunches over, resting his elbows on his knees. He yawns and doesn't cover his mouth.“What does that mean?”“It means that you can shut your mouth and still say what you need to say using the other gifts the gods gave us.

Celia McMahon

A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don’t also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?

Roman Payne

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

Hiroko Sakai

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Abraham Verghese

Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we stop pursuing God`s purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.

Sunday Adelaja

If we're talented at music, that talent is of god. If something makes our heart sing, that's god's way of telling us its a contribution he wants us to make. Sharing our gifts is what makes us happy. We're most powerful and god's power is most apparent on the earth when we're happy. A course in miracles teaches that we are only truly happy when we're doing god's will. The only thing to be saved from is our own negativity and fear. The crux of salvation in any area is a shift in our sense of purpose. That shift is a miracle, as always we consciously ask for it: 'Dear god, please give my life some sense of purpose. use me as an instrument of your peace. Use my talents and abilities to spread love. I surrender my job to you. Help me to remember that my real job is to love the world back to health.

Marianne Williamson

Everyone has a talent, and gifts shouldn't be judged by their glory factor

Laura Peyton Roberts

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

Leo Buscaglia

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Wayde Goodall

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