Change always comes bearing gifts.
Price Pritchett
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
Portuguese Proverb
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
Johannes Tauler
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
Author Unknown
A hug is a great gift – one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.
Author Unknown
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
Allen Klein
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Eleanor Powell
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
Catherine Hall
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
Author Unknown
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands. ~
Rabindranath Tagore
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Author Unknown
A woman’s gifts will make room for her.
Hattie McDaniel
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what’s important.
Elle Macpherson
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that’s one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I’m just telling you from my heart, I’m so in love with life.
Roy Ayers
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Mary Pipher
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Sophocles
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Fredrik Bajer
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we’re currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
Charles Colson
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
Loretta Young
Enemies’ gifts are no gifts and do no good.
Sophocles
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
Walter Ulbricht
Gifts make slaves.
Levi Strauss
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”
William A. Ward
From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money – either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
Christie Hefner
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William A. Ward