Quotes About Gifts

Never trust the enemy that gives you presents

Let us add that in these times of lax morality they had no more delicacy with respect to the mistresses; and that the latter almost always left them valuable and durable remembrances, as if they essayed to conquer the fragility of their sentiments by the solidity of their gifts.

To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.

sometimes God gives us things we don't need. And the best of the gifts He gives us is someone to share all the silly and grand, frivolous and spectacular—" Betty nodded solemnly. "—sad and heartbreaking—" Bonnie's grip tightened on Cora's fingers. "—joyous and exquisite moments of our lives.

Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." ?—Carrie Snow

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." —Carrie Snow "Beam

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It is my partner." —Jonas Salk

Were the wise men placing Jesus and Mary in their debt with these very expensive gifts? Or were they showing their indebtedness? When our federal government today cuts a check, are they exercising authority or showing submission? This is not a hard question.

Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you "I'm not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.

Your work is what you were born to do. No kind of educational system can teach you your true work, because it is your life purpose, and it is revealed by your God-given gifts.

Every age has gifts we need, and every age has needs we gift.

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

The paradox of gifts: I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

Create always: As God has seen fit in His perfection to give you such abilities, work and share of your gifts.

Aren't waiters wonderful? You ask them for things and they bring them... It's the same principle as Santa Claus.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can't give yourself

Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.