Quotes About Gift

Our gift was time and attention and care and red-stained fingers. Heart berries, indeed.

A gift creates ongoing relationship. I will write a thank-you note. I will take good care of them

Hyde reminds us that in a gift economy, one's freely given gifts cannot be made into someone else's capital.

Wild strawberries fit the definition of gift, but grocery store berries do not. It's the relationship between producer and consumer that changes everything. As a gift-thinker, I would be deeply offended if I saw wild strawberries in the grocery store. I would want to kidnap them all. They were not meant to be sold, only to be given.

A gift is something for nothing, except that certain obligations are attached. For the plant to be sacred, it cannot be sold.

As the scholar and writer Lewis Hyde notes, "It is the cardinal difference between gift and commodity exchange that a gift establishes a feeling-bond between two people.

That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

As the scholar and writer Lewis Hyde notes, "It is the cardinal difference between gift and commodity exchange that a gift establishes a feeling-bond between two people." Wild strawberries fit the definition of gift, but grocery store berries do not. It's the relationship between producer and consumer that changes everything.

Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity

thank all the birds who move and fly about over our heads. The Creator gave them the gift of beautiful songs. Each morning they greet the day and with their songs remind us to enjoy and appreciate life.

And here is the mother tree, A-ma continues. Her voice is at once softer and filled with more emotion than it ever is during ceremonial sacrifices. She places her palms on the trunk as delicatly as she did on De-jas' belly. Isn't she beautiful? These trees are sacred, A-ma states simply. And those yellow threads are the mother tree's most precious gift. I've helped many with the leaves and threads of the mother tree when all else failed.

a traditional Cantonese gift: a tin of imported Danish cookies.

What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?

It's lovely when people accept your gift with gratitude, but you can't control that. You can only control your intention.

There are so few silent spaces in this modern world; I have learned to relish the gift of insomnia.

My husband used to say, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Forgiveness is a gift

There are those who have labored all their lives to gain the gift, striving until the end only to find themselves mistaken; and those who had it born in them yet never knew; those who lost heart too soon; and those who should never have begun at all. "Count yourself lucky," the potter went on, "that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.

Go, he said. This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love.

Surely that gift—the gift of a world of human decency—is the one that all countries hunger for still.

When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can't be given.

A saint is not a virtuous soul, but an empty one. He—or she—freely gives the gift of their will to their god. And in renouncing action, makes action possible.

She took the story in like some strange, spiked gift, too fragile to drop, too painful to hold.