The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
Arthur Conan DoyleGod waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
Rabindranath TagoreThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
UnknownAll that is not given is lost.
Rabindranath TagoreCharacter is the most precious gift of education.
Sai BabaEvery time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother TeresaThe poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
Mother TeresaNothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. LewisCharity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar WildeJoy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert EinsteinGive whatever you are doing, and whoever you are with, the gift of your attention.
Jim RohnThere are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil GibranThe 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 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 CarlyleForgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose BierceThe heart of marriage is memories, and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill CosbyI fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
VirgilActing 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 AureliusMusic is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin LutherFeeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur WardMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoThat 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 SenecaFaith is different from proof, the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise PascalI 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 DianaBeauty is the lover's gift.
William CongreveBeauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint AugustineGreat 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.
SophoclesGentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma GandhiGifts are like hooks.
Marcus AureliusGod gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
William Arthur WardEvery 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 AddisonA lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.
Taylor SwiftMacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
Winston ChurchillGod's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
AeschylusLife is a gift and i try to respond with grace and courtesy
Maya AngelouGuilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma BombeckChildren are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond TutuBeauty is a fragile gift.
OvidGenerosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahlil GibranBeauty 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 AngelouIt is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil GibranLet us not be too particular, it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark TwainThe gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice WalkerMarriage 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 IIGod does not deny anyone, it is only you who deny God. When the gift is proffered you have to do only one little act so that you may earn it. You have to extend your hand to receive it.
Sai BabaI try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel OsteenI think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler YeatsWhen 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 AngelouAll religions exhort man to cleanse the heart of malice, greed, hate and anger. All religions hold out the gift of Grace as the prize for success in this cleaning process.
Sai BabaOne must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
Maya Angelou