Everything is a gift . . .

• Each day provides its own gifts. — Martial
• Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. — Pindar
• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. — Alexis Carrel
• Someone has suggested that America's greatest gifts to civilization are three: corn flakes, Kleenex and credit. — Benezet Louis
• If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
• A sense of humor is a gift from God, but like any gift, it can be abused. — Cal Samra
• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley
• Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts. — Nan Robertson
• Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. — Desmond Tutu
• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. — Elizabeth Hardwick
• God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. — Florence Nightingale
• She had an unequaled gift . . . of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. — Henry James, Jr.
• We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them. — Jean Toomer
• If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts—a selective memory. — Jim Fiebig
• May you have the greatest two gifts of all on these holidays; someone to love and someone who loves you. — John Sinor
• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it; really look after it and nurture it. — John Lennon
• As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek. — Kenneth Grahame
• A thick skin is a gift from God. — Konrad Adenauer
• We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. — Mark Twain
• Life, love, and laughter—what priceless gifts to give our children. — Phyllis Dryden
• Let us give according to our incomes, lest God make our incomes match our gifts. — Peter Marshall
• In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. — William R. Hearst
• Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. — Thomas Fuller
• Your talent is God's gift to you. How you use it is your gift to God. — Country Saying
• Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. — Marcus Cato
• With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave. — Saskya Pandita
• Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
• When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them? — W. H. Auden
• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. — William Shakespeare
• Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone. — Naomi Judd