The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
UnknownCharacter is the most precious gift of education.
Sai BabaNothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. LewisCharity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar WildeGive whatever you are doing, and whoever you are with, the gift of your attention.
Jim RohnThe greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
BuddhaA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas CarlyleSurprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane AustenA gift with a kind countenance is a double present.
Thomas FullerI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift, as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis StevensonI have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something, I don't know where I would be without it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas CarlyleI fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
VirgilA friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis StevensonActing is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine HepburnEach day provides its own gifts
Marcus AureliusHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia WoolfFeeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur WardEvery problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard BachThat which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaCease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HoraceI don't want expensive gifts, I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
Princess DianaGreat men, or men of great gifts, you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEnemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
SophoclesGifts are like hooks.
Marcus AureliusEvery great person is always being helped by everybody, for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John RuskinA punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAn 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 IrvingSince time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to, nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift.
Maya AngelouAs vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.
Joseph AddisonMacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
Winston ChurchillGuilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma BombeckBut this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
SophoclesBeauty is a fragile gift.
OvidBeauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have found that, among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya AngelouLet us not be too particular, it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark TwainMarriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Pope John Paul IIWhen we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift.
Maya AngelouOne must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
Maya Angelou