Quotes About Gift

right before he'd mailed her child an expensive toy and then had his phone number changed, he'd awakened from a night of horror-show

Love gives every gift whereby we long to live: Love takes every gift, and nothing back doth give.

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold.

She is herself a dowry.

You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.

That's why folks sometimes say, 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

John had one built in Paris for his wife. They've

Love isn't something you can give yourself permission for. You can't pick the time and place, or the girl. Love is God's gift to you and a woman, forever and always.

I heard the "bam, bam, bam" of a woodpecker high in the top of a box elder snag. The cry of a kingfisher and the scream of a blue jay blended perfectly with the drum like beat. A barking red squirrel, glued to the side of a hackberry tree, kept time to the music with the beat of his tail. Each noise I heard and each sight I saw was very familiar to me but I never grew tired of listening and watching. They were a God-sent gift and I enjoyed them all.

exploited to the full my happy gift of falling almost immediately into deep sleep.

We've inherited hope— the gift of forgetting.

And I possessed the gift of vanishing before astonished eyes, which is the richest of all. I am too close, too close for him to dream of me. I slip my arm from underneath his sleeping head— it's numb, swarming with imaginary pins. A host of fallen angels perches on each tip, waiting to be counted.

The star's proudest possession, I learned, is the engraved Rolex he was given for Valentine's Day by Mother Teresa.

She bought him a leather-bound edition of Miss Julie and inscribed it "To Jerry, You only live once. If you're a schlemiel, twice won't help. Love, Lulu.

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty . She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

The reason some people use their genetic gift for running and others don't is because the brain is a bargain shopper.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin

Non c'è uomo più riconoscente di quello a cui si è dato proprio il libro che la sua anima desiderava inconsciamente.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

God, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, has been sent by the Son to indwell you so that you might be empowered to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Such is the marvelous gift that God has freely bestowed upon you and me. We will never receive a better gift. Other gifts may thrill us, delight us, even astonish us. But no other gift will ever supersede this gift - because the gift is God Himself.

I'm learning to cling tightly to the love we're granted. Whether you have one year or a lifetime, don't forget that love is a gift. A gift to be appreciated and nurtured—for better or worse.