Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
[Ger., Denn der Wille
Und nicht die read more

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
[Ger., Denn der Wille
Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.]

Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a
shirt on his back.

Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a
shirt on his back.

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he
give him a stone?

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he
give him a stone?

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you read more

The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society read more

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in
proportion to the worth of read more

In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in
proportion to the worth of the thing given.

He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would read more

He ne'er consider'd it as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth;
But as he got it freely, so
He spent it frank and freely too:
For saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.