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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for read more
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
 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. 
 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to 
support the weak, and to remember read more 
 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to 
support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, 
how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. 
 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? 
 For to give is the business of the rich.
 [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]  
 For to give is the business of the rich.
 [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] 
A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
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.