Quotes of: Gifts Keyword

POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

The Library at Night

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post

Then take it as it is. It’s a gift. How or why is irrelevant, but if we don’t enjoy it, we are ungrateful,” he said and brought his face very close to mine. His eyes seemed to sparkle in the moonlight, mesmerizing me.

Life In Paradise

This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was an offering.

Love and Relativity

The best present is wrapped in fur. And when you shake the package, it meows. Give the gift of love, before it runs away and gets run over.


Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.

Loving Well

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

Little Women

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way

My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

My Family and Other Animals

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Second Words: Selected Critical Prose

I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, I think. That's what you have to gain. The sacrifice turns into a gift that is priceless.

Snow rising

Sapphires for my bride-to-be and a severed head for the king my brother," said Duke Richard cheerfully. "As St Paul pointed out, gifts may vary but the spirit is the same. In the present instance, a spirit of goodwill.

The Seventh Son

On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.

Selected Stories

Love is the most precious gift you could ever possibly hope to steal. Some women foolishly do not leave their rib cages locked at night.

This Book Title is Invisible

Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you’re free.

Orfeo

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear.

The Parents' Guide to Raising CEO Kids