Quotes About Gifts

I love giving gifts. It's almost like I don't open my gifts until, like, three days after Christmas 'cause I want to give everyone else their presents.

I love both real and fake jewelry. My kids make me necklaces, and I wear those, too. Every day, I wear my gold wedding band and the Cartier watch my husband gave me.

It is customary for those who wish to have the most beautiful ones to endeavourer to offer them gifts of those things which they hold most precious in order to win their hearts.

I can't tell you anything about yourself you don't already know…WAIT…unless you don't know you're an incredibly freaking amazing person with boundless gifts to share…then I can tell you that.

Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

To live in sync with who we truly are means to recognize that we are dependent on God for our very breath and are graced with many good things; it means to be grateful to the giver and attentive to the purpose for which the gifts are given.

God's gifts aim at making us into generous givers, not just fortunate receivers. God gives so that we, in human measure, can be givers too.

All blessings do not bless the same.

will share a secret: this is how talents are bestowed. Before newborns open their eyes, we circle them, appearing as brilliant colors, and when they clench their tiny hands for the first time, they are actually grabbing the colors they find most appealing. Those talents are with them for life. The lucky ones (well, in my opinion, the lucky ones) choose me. Music.

Be satisfied." That's it? "Be grateful." That's it? "For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you.

If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt like someone of whom she was fond, an old and future friend of herself, still unspent and up ahead somewhere, like a light that moves.

What I mean—what we mean by it is—it's like credit," I said, suddenly thinking of my grandfather. "Gifts, and thanks—we'll accept from someone what they can give then, and make return to them when it's wanted, if we can. And there are some cheats, and some debts aren't paid, but others are paid with interest to make up for it, and we can all do the more for not having to pay as we go.

You refused him," he said to me, almost angrily. "I'm not a fool, to take gifts from monsters," I said. "Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price." He laughed, a little shrill and sharp. "Yes, the trick is to have someone else pay it for you

Gifts, and thanks—we'll accept from someone what they can give then, and make return to them when it's wanted, if we can. And there are some cheats, and some debts aren't paid, but others are paid with interest to make up for it, and we can all do the more for not having to pay as we go.

I'm not a fool, to take gifts from monsters. Where do you think its power comes from? Nothing like that comes without a price.

Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit. Within every problem is an opportunity. Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.

Presents are delivered from the sky, in every package a prize, a chance, to choke, to suffocate, to forget, yes to forget every last word ever spoken of man higher in the scale than animal creation, the gorilla and the tiger being mere beasts while man has shrines, altars, lights, books awarding him personal immortality, books not yet banned nor burned.

Los regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe.

Presents are made for the pleasure of the one who gives them, not for the merits of those who recieve them

but in good time you'll see that what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Presents are made for the pleasure of the one who gives them, not for the merits of those who receive them, said my father. Besides, it can't be returned. Open it

sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merit of who recieves them.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them