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#1

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, gifts

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#2

“You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: gifts

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#3

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”
― David Nicholls, One Day

tags: gifts, love, self-confidence

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#4

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent

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#5

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

tags: future, gifts, magic, past, possibilities, stories, talents

1607 likes

#6

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

tags: cats, gifts, love

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#7

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: gifts, giving

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#8

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”
― Leo Buscaglia

tags: gifts, talent

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#9

“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
― Roman Payne

tags: art, artistic, creativity, equations, gifts, ideas, inspiration, literature, math, mathematical, mathematics, muse, muses, mysteries, mystery, payne, sleep, sleeping, waking

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#10

“You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.'
It's a gift.”
― Christina Dodd, Into the Shadow

tags: friendship, gifts, humor

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#11

“Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: compassion, gifts, giving, helping-others, inspirational, kindness, life

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#12

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: deaf, dream, music

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#13

“Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: appreciation, blessing, choice, gifts, happiness, inspirational, life

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#14

“They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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#15

“But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
- Tithonus”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: beauty, death, gifts, gods, immortality, youth

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#16

“I wouldn’t want the guests at my birthday party confusing my celebration with the Oscars. That’s why I’m having the awards ceremony after we eat cake and I open my presents. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

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#17

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: boxes, cardboard, gifts, mothers, recycling

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#18

“Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly race of men,
Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?
...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,
And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,
In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?
‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’
- Tithonus”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: death, destiny, gifts, gods, immortality

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#19

“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
― Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

tags: gifts, love

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#20

“It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them.”
― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

tags: careers, courage, dignity, empowerment, equality, feminism, freedom, gender, gifts, honour, independence, insults, livelihood, men, personal-finances, respect, self-determination, social-norms, strength, subjugation, talents, women, work

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#21

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
― Seneca, Moral Essays: Volume III

tags: benefits, gifts, intentions

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#22

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

tags: best, gifts, heart, store, truth

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#23

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.”
― Thomas Hughes

tags: beatitudes, friends, gifts

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#24

“When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.”
― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

tags: birthday, books, gifts, knitting, presents

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#25

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: gifts, unkind

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#26

“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: gifts

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#27

“Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

tags: christmas, gifts, parenting, reading

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#28

“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.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories

tags: gifts, inspirational, life

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#29

“I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.”
― Ingrid Betancourt, Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

tags: death, gifts

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#30

“Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.”
― Ken Page

tags: gifts, psychology, wounds

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