639 Quotes About Gifts

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

The greatest gift the gods bestow is being able to enjoy ordinary things.

I almost let go of the pole to ask him where we're going in sign language. But then a voice inside my head warns, Dawn, you're letting him suck you in again.So, instead, I clamp my lips and remind myself that he's the worst kind of monster. The kind that gives gifts.

Department policy was to accept unsolicited gifts under twenty bucks—it was a cultural thing in a lot of places, and refusal could offend—and then fill in the requisite forms in triplicate back in the office.

Life doesn’t owe me. However, it liberally gifts me.

You're too precious to put into words. I think... it's like one of Theodore's buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it's because they exist at all.

821 A particular task may seem small, but by virtue of the sweat and tears involved in its execution, it is made precious. The work may be quite ordinary, but through dedicated love it becomes important. A devoted son may continue to wear a very old woollen jacket, refusing to exchange it for a newer, more expensive one, because every stitch of wool in that garment is a sign of his mother’s love for him.

The greatest gifts come in the most tattered wraps.

Presents are made for the pleasure of the one who gives them, not for the merits of those who receive them," said my father. "Besides, it can't be returned. Open it,