Quotes About Gifts

Agreed, he says. But once your purpose was served, shouldn't your life be your own? Miracles are the property of God, she answers. No, he says, miracles are gifts from God. To call them his property insults the spirit in which they are given.

Citra returned to Sythe Curie at Falling Water many weeks before Winter Conclave, when the Month of Lights had just begun, and gifts were being passed between friends and loved ones to celebrate ancient miracles that no one quite remembered.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

Lord, help me to see that what I have has been given and this makes a claim on me to be generous and not to hold things simply to myself. Amen.

Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person was who said this was okay. After spending all that money on a bachelorette weekend, a shower, and often a flight across the country, they expect you to go to Williams Sonoma or Pottery Barn and do research? Then they send you a thank-you note applauding you for such a thoughtful gift. They're the one who picked it out!

When I get married, I'm gonna register at Bank of America.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

I have had the same person show up in a few cities with flowers. A lovely gentleman who gave me a picture of himself. I came home, gave it to Ian, and said, 'If I go missing, here's the guy.'

I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.

When you're going to meet your man's mom and dad, it's always nice to bring them something homemade and from the heart.

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

Was it in woman's nature to be content with all that a man could give her, and not forever want what was not his to give?

All you are is what you were given. All you were given is the certainty of self.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

The value of the gifts is in what the act of giving communicates.

Eu não quero mais bênçãos, quero Aquele que abençoa. Não quero mais dons, quero Aquele que os concede.

We can _start_ making Christmas and Santa can finish up.

I did not know why I destroyed those dolls. But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas

In general, Quakers did not give gifts, as material possessions should not be given heightened status.

The internet is less a creation dictated by economics than one dictated by sharing gifts.

Beware of geeks bearing gifts

One time, Grandpa had gifts for us. He gave me a hand-polished, dark steel pair of pliers that fit my fist perfectly. For my brother, he had some coins from Canada. Even then, I knew these gifts were wise. I tried to fix things with my hands. For my brother, vocation was more distant: repair of the world.