The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

All that is not given is lost.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Give whatever you are doing, and whoever you are with, the gift of your attention.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.

A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift, as to the spirit in which it is offered.

I 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.

It 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.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

The 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.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Each day provides its own gifts

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Faith is different from proof, the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I 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.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Beauty 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.

Great men, or men of great gifts, you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Gifts are like hooks.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

Every great person is always being helped by everybody, for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

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.

Since 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.

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Life is a gift and i try to respond with grace and courtesy

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Children 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.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Generosity 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.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I have found that, among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Let us not be too particular, it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don't love to be loved, we love to love.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him, but to God, that the gift was made.

Marriage 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.

God 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.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

I 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.

When 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.

All 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.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.