Wrapping Quotes

• 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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• The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Ribbons, Tag

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

  Judith Viorst

  Life, Joy, Everyday

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• In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.

  T. D. Jakes

  Gratitude, Hands, Shopping

  T. D. Jakes (2004). “Follow the Star: Christmas Stories That Changed My Life”, p.56, Penguin

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• Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dream, Blow, Competition

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• Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

  Bono

  Kissing, Past, Ducks

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• Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Individuation

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• The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Titles

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• I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

  Ellen Raskin

  Book, Trying, World

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• Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

  David Levithan

  Wrapping Paper, Done, Kind

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.42, Egmont UK

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• When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Heart, Thinking

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3803, Delphi Classics

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  To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

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• A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends... Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Acceptance, Light

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• Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love at Christmas - should be separated, if only slightly, from the more quiet, personal moments when we consider the meaning of the Baby (and his birth) who prompts the giving of such gifts.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Christmas, Baby, Expression

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• Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

  Madeleine Delbrel

  God, Faith, Running

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• My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

  Al Capp

  Next Day, One Day, Fishes

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• I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.

  Pamela Moore

  Heart, School, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Pamela Moore from Dec 14, 2012

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• I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Wrapping Paper, Notes

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• If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Winning, Thinking

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.130, Penguin

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• If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Men, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.

  Gene Veith

  Thinking, Religion, Looks

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• I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

  Mark Haddon

  Giving, Poetry Is

  "Finding the vital spark". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• I'm not different. I'm not different at all. The wrapping is different but the gift is still the same.

  Clay Aiken

  Different, Stills

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