639 Quotes About Gifts

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.

Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been gifted with something almost as rare: an open and eager mind. She had the gift of watching and listening, the gift of taking all the hurts and happenings of others' lives and understanding their purpose.

Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.

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

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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.

Accept that God has given each of us a magnificent role to play on Earth merely because we're human; that we were born with a perfect script etched on our hearts; that its not to our personal credit, but to His greater glory, that each of us is brilliant-such are the truths that free us from the ego's lies.

One gift the fairies gave me ... the love of books, the magic key that opens the enchanted door.