Gifts Quotes

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount one of gifts, but in the amount one is loved.

~ Todd Stocker

Recognize that you are enough, and that all external gifts are simply extra blessings.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

~ Ann Voskamp

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

~ Ann Voskamp

It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house. Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty. Men use to tell us that we love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us: what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed?

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is ...acknowledging everyone's beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis

~ Sunday Adelaja

The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value.

~ Aldous Huxley

Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually redonates the money, or uses the accolades as a foot in the door for more activism and awareness. A plack on the wall won’t change the world; it only shows your devotion.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

~ Seneca

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

~ Erma Bombeck

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

~ Gene Wolfe

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

~ William Shakespeare

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

~ Robert Schumann

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

~ John Wyndham

oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

~ Alice Clayton

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

~ Jerome

In this city [Palermo] . . . it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.

~ Gianni Riotta

All other businesses we do for living and for leaving good and great footprints are good! In fact, we must not let our gifts and talents be idle, but in all our endeavors we must not forget that there is one more noble business than any, and that is touching and saving lives for the Kingdom of God, in truth and in spirit, and proclaiming the coming of Jesus Christ with all due diligence, understanding, humility, courage and fortitude!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Cited from Chuck Palahniuk, 2003 - do not suffer do not rejoice, be not complimented or offended by such gifts. Judge not, lest ye be judged (Ejump, 2017)

~ Ejump - 2017

At least you've brought gifts. What's in the basket?She rummaged through the contents. A few sweetmeats and lozenges. Packets of raisins. But mostly it's Aunt Thea's surplus cosmetics and remedies. She sends away for every product advertised in every ladies' magazine. I like to see them put to some use.He blinked at her. These are your gifts?Your men have depleted our stores of food, and I didn't have time to prepare anything else.What are they supposed to do with- he held up a brown bottle and peered at the label- Dr. Jacobs' Miracle Elixir? He plucked a small jar out next. Excelsior Blemish Cream?Women are women, Logan. Every girl needs a bit of luxury and a chance to feel pretty now and then.

~ Tessa Dare

God has given us all different abilities and gifts, so that through them we can bring God’s love and His presence into the land where we are called

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is no greater gift like LOVE.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The items people own reveal something about the owners. Every quaint item that a person selects to surround themselves with has a basic quiddity, the essence, or inherent nature of things. As a people, we assign a value meaning not only to the things that we presently possess, but also to the items destined for one generation to hand down to the next generation.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Shed the yesteryears, embrace the present as a gift and the future as a possibility

~ Val Uchendu

You don't wear jewelry, do you? Besides your wedding ring, I mean?''Now often. If is not that I disapprove. I simply don't take the time to bother with it. I've been given a few trinkets over the years, but rarely wear them.' Thora looked down at her hand, the plain thin wedding band, the unadorned wrist, and a memory struck her. She said, 'Frank gave me a gift once - a find gold bracelet with a blue enamel heart dangling from it. He said it was to remind me that I was more than his helpmeet and housekeeper, but also an attractive woman. I was sure I'd break the delicate chain, and the heart clacked against the desk whenever I wrote in the ledger. So I put it back in its box, and there it has remained ever since.'Nan said gently, 'We've all been given gifts, Thors, and ought not to hide them away. They remind us that we are blessed and loved. They give pleasure to those who see them - especially to the one who bestowed the gift in the first place.

~ Julie Klassen

But...what makes you Nathan--what makes you so special--is that you are both White Witch and Black Witch, both dark and full of light. That's what I love about you. What I've always loved. And I love you still, Nathan, and I know I always will. But you're changing. And now...now what I fear is that you'll get the amulet and you'll hone the Gifts you took from your father. You'll be invulnerable and you'll kill more people, many, many more people. I fear you won't be able to stop and you'll lose yourself completely. And then I'll come to dread you too.

~ Sally Green

I had thought that my being would collapse when I gifted my soul', said Neville. 'Why is it then that I still breathe, and feel, and move?' 'Because,' said Mary, 'when you gift something wholly and completely and unhesitatingly it returns to you doublefold.

~ Sara Douglass

In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an object: it is inseparable from the concrete relation in which it is exchanged, the transferential pact that it seals between two persons: it is thus not independent as such. It has, properly speaking, neither use value nor (economic) exchange value. The object given has symbolic exchange value.

~ Jean Baudrillard

He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.

~ Phaedra Patrick

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.

~ Vann Chow

Life's Irony; It is not only the poor that needs gifts, the rich also love to be gifted.

~ Auliq Ice

gifts — that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Oreos come in packages. Otherwise known as a gift. Cherish it.

~ Oreo Queen

The truer you are to yourself, the greater your gifts will manifest themselves.

~ Tiffany L. Jackson

Try - now's gift.

~ H.l. Balcomb