Quotes About Gifts

The best gifts are never given, but claimed.

How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?

look back at those huge obstacles—such as illness, accidents, addiction, financial loss, children's struggles, and divorce—and see in retrospect that they were actually gifts disguised as problems.

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!

If this is how all our hopes and love and good intentions end, then why not put a bullet through each one of us and call it a day? Why put us here, give us each other, and fill us with dreams and gifts and expressions, only to spill them across the street like cheap paint!

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away.

Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.

Youth and love and a summer day— What fairer gifts could the gods bestow? Ah, could the golden time but stay, Of youth and love and a summer day!

Twice as much to love, Two blessings from above.

Twenty fingers, twenty toes, Two sweet babies with cheeks of rose. Born the same day, two gifts from above, Lives entwined, two babies to love.

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.

This love of Christ and for Christ impels us day after day, taking up our tasks one after another, in full knowledge that our work no matter how tiring and repetitive is really his own. We have nothing to give to others that we ourselves have not first received. His gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation are inexhaustible.

The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

If you give a man a gift because you hope he will award a particular contract to you, you are obviously demonstrating a lack of confidence in your ability to make your normal services profitable to him. And if you're doing it because your competitors are, then you're suggesting that the prospect really isn't a very ideal customer.

He's making a listAnd checking it twice,Gonna find outWho's naughty and nice,Santa Claus is comin' to town.

What's the biggest and most important problem I can solve with my gifts and skills? Or: How do I find my consciousness, my truest self?

All the objects you gifted me cannot replace your love.

There is a price for forgetting and remembering. Forgetting as a form of escape deprives us of what the Five Gifts can offer––humility, patience, empathy, forgiveness, and growth.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

Do not trust the Horse, Trojans/ Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. —Laocoön in Virgil's Aeneid

Wally gives gifts all the time, at the drop of a hat, little, odd ones. The gift not so much in the item itself as in the transaction, the act of passing something along.

I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright. Your loaned edition sits in my house like a real grievance. And in lieu of lending books, I buy extra copies of those I want to give away, which gives me the added pleasure of buying books I love again and again." --Jonathan Lethem