Favorite Quotations
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Gifts & Giving, 2
Giving Good Gifts
It takes great generosity to accept generosity. ~ Merle Shain, Fresh-cut Flowers For A Friend Never turn away from your gifts. In their expression lies the power to release you. ~ Karol M. Wasylyshyn The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. ~ Thomas Morell Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him. ~ Rabindranath Tagore Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Every day is a gift --- even if it sucks. ~ Sherry Hochman When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him graciously. When someone gives the hospital $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say, that will help. ~ Robert H. Thorson The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up. ~ May Sarton, For Writers Only
"Gift exchanges make love last longer." ~ Swedish Proverb