Gifts And Giving Quotes

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Positive, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2015

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Christmas, Lying, Generosity

  Charles Dudley Warner (1871). “My Summer in a Garden”

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2017

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, God

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

  Pierre Corneille

  Birthday, Christmas, Giving

  "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.

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• I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

  Antonio Porchia

  Giving Not Receiving, Given, Gift Giving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Shopping, Giving, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

  Kin Hubbard

  Christmas, Children, Mean

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• The gift without the giver is rare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thank You, Generosity, Giving

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• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

  James Russell Lowell

  Friendship, Thank You, Giving

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiration, Giving, Charity

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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• That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Insperational, Generosity

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 100

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• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  Garrison Keillor

  Happiness, Christmas, Thank You

  Attributed to Keillor in "The Miracle of Language" by Richard Lederer, p. 149, 1999.

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