Gift Quotes

Thank you,’ I answered, unsure of the proper American response to her gracious enthusiasm. In the Arab world, gratitude is a language unto itself. “May Allah bless the hands that give me this gift”; “Beauty is in the eyes that find me pretty”; “May Allah never deny your prayer”; and so on, an infinite string of prayerful appreciation. Coming from such a culture, I have always found a mere “thank you” an insufficient expression that makes my voice sound miserly and ungrateful.” (169).

~ Susan Abulhawa

If you don't truly believe in Jesus Christ, fear will be your worst enemy at the End of the Age. The gift of the Holy Spirit is the gift of no fear. John 14:1-4.

~ Felix Wantang

My gift to you, Yukiko-chan.' He nodded. 'Use it to cut away your fear, and leave nothing in its wake. Cherish it. And cherish this truth I speak to you now, if no other before or after: The greatest tempest Shima has even known waits in the wings for you to call its name. Your anger can topple mountains. Crush empires. Change the very shape of the world.'He pressed the blade into her hand, watched her with cool eyes the colour of steel.'Your anger is a gift.

~ Jay Kristoff

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal.

~ Dannika Dark

It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.

~ T.f. Hodge

I want to make people around me happy, because I never know that laughter I gave to them would be my last gift I could offer.

~ Jimbo J. Antipolo

God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Some think intuition is a gift, but it can be a curse as well--a voice calling to us from places that are better left unexplored...an echo of memories that will never die, no matter how hard we try to kill them.

~ Emily Thorne

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

~ Shaka Senghor

Just like you fell on me, I fell for you, and the sensation of the fall happened so fast but in a beautiful way.

~ Aishabella Sheikh

What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

~ Criss Jami

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

~ Criss Jami

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

~ Sarah Weeks

My greatest gratitude is the gift of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...

~ Dan Simmons

The world is drastically changing, but happiness will always remain a gift that can only be received from within.

~ Hafiz

A promise is a gift and a gift is a symbol of a social relationship. The donor is aware that it creates a link and the recipient identifies it as a mutual bond. A gift, however, is tangible and a promise is not. Eventually, a promise can be expounded as misunderstood, or misheard or it is simply over and done. If misheard, the social bond is to be put into question. If forgotten, it can be reminded but this is embarrassing. If elapsed, it is one of those broken promises that infest countless relationships. ( Promised me a breeze of freedom )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Laughter is a gift for lovers.

~ Harley King

How many rooms are there in the chambers of your heart? How many rooms full of memories can you describe like the one I’m going to tell you about. You know how you left him don’t you? The man you were so in love with once. Bing Cherry Silk. Another man left those for you didn’t he? And you put them on, just like I did.

~ Valentine Bonnaire

I think what makes life matter,what makes it good,is knowing that someday we`ll die. Maybe death is God`s joke on us but I think it is also his gift.We have our allotted time and the is`s over.It`s up to us to make in meaningful and special.

~ Philip Carter

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

~ Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

As time goes by, westart to see more clearly,and are able to see thatit wasn’t all bad, and thatperhaps just perhapsthe breakup was a gift.

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.

~ T.f. Hodge

I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face... Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent... but the benign remedy Vaccination saves millions of lives every century, like the [gift] of the sun, universal and everla

~ Benjamin Waterhouse

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

God cannot be indicted with injustice because someone rejected a gift they weren't entitled to in the first place.

~ Evan Minton

I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.

~ James C. Dobson

A book, the greatest gift ever

~ R.gayan Priyankara

Remember, a book is always a gift.

~ Sheridan Hay

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

~ Amit Ray

Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, a dance of thankfulness, celebration for no reason at all, for this tremendous gift that goes on showering on us, for this whole universe, from the dust to the divine.

~ Osho

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rainbows: The gift from heaven to us all.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

~ Dan Groat

He didn't know what he'd done to deserve her love, but he thanked the Lord he had it. Then again, when was love ever given because it was deserved? Respect and honor were earned. Awards were deserved. But love was a gift from one heart to another.

~ Ann H. Gabhart

A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt.

~ Wisdom Kwashie Mensah

...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...

~ Morgan Matson