Gift giving is a true art.
1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to give the gift.
2. You need to know what they truly want.
3. You must be able to give it to them.
Anything less is a symptom of varying degrees, on your part, of ignorance, distance, or insult.
But if you cannot afford the right gift, telling the person what you would do if you could, justifies everything—as you present that not-so-perfect substitute.
Tag: etiquette gifts gift gift-giving
Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.
Jeannette WallsTag: gifts
Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
Ann VoskampTag: joy gifts gratitude thanksgiving depth height dependence thanks grateful
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 AhernTag: life inspirational gifts
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry ClayTag: blessings gifts gratitude thankfulness courtesy
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them...My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners...
It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment...But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.
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 FonteTag: strength empowerment equality gender men women freedom work courage feminism self-determination independence respect insults gifts talents honour dignity careers social-norms subjugation personal-finances livelihood
You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsTag: love romance death gifts novel romance-novel love-story
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
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Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.
Ken PageTag: wounds psychology gifts
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