Quotes About Gifts

Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men's opinions.

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

If I developed empathy, at first, it wasn't so much a way to find connection as a survival strategy. My parents gave me burdens in childhood that I honed into gifts.

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

If we all have a sufficiently stimulating environment, then our inherent abilities—our genetic gifts—will dominate in the unfolding of our lives. If we lack a sufficiently stimulating environment, our cognitive gifts never have the chance to blossom.

Not that I'm waiting with bated breath for your presents. I need your diamond brooches and bracelets like last year's snow.

friends are precious gifts that we give ourselves!

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.

You're beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet

Best thing about being King; you get lots of pressies.

The bags full of Turkish noses sent by the Uskoks from Senj to Charles V in 1532 may have been one of those gifts more fun to send than to receive,

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

People, the people we really love, where did they come from? What did we do to deserve them?

Courtney Cox got me this Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer. She wears it, too! If one of us finds a product we love, we buy it for the other.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

God seems less interested in talent and more interested in trust.