Love As A Gift Quotes

#1. Love is the gift. You cannot go and look for the gift by yourself. That action is contrary to the definition of the word gift. Therefore, single ladies should wait to be chosen and to receive love as a gift.

Khuliso Mamathoni

#2. It felt real, seeing his friend like that. It was like a gift. He wasn't into spiritual bullshit, but damn. Damn. That Mouse had become his friend was a gift, but a curse as well. If he'd left that whole situation alone, would Mouse - would James - have had a better life? A different outcome?

Debra Anastasia

#3. Enjoy your life. God gave us our bodies as a gift. (Granted, to some of us it's kind of a gag gift, but that's okay too.) Wear what you want, love who you want, and have fun.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. I wish the rose was as beautiful as the woman who gives it as a gift ... but to say so would be to lie. But I will accept the lesser if it pleases the greater of the two ... and I say, THANK YOU

Tonny K. Brown

#5. The greatest investment in life is the investment of unconditional love, as a profit you will get the greatest gift of life: happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Love. It is an incredible sensation. An amazing gift. All consuming and yet as light as a whisper. Once you've been in love you don't ever want to find yourself out of it.

Jenna Bayley-Burke

#7. I really love sharing my gift with others. At the same time, I'm just a normal kid having fun and that's what life is all about-having fun at the same time as helping people.

Akiane Kramarik

#8. A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures.

Gary Chapman

#9. The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

George W. Bush

#10. Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.

Edward Carpenter

#11. The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent's love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that someday we might return to Him.

Richard Paul Evans

#12. As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love.

Amy Eldon

#13. For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

Michael Milken

#14. Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.

Oswald Chambers

#15. It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Wilferd Peterson

#16. A magic came out of your smile
Gold thread of gold thread
Stars illuminating the sky
There
Where in the mountain stream
Healing water
Tears of ice as a gift to me

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#17. Love can be obtained by begging, buying, receiving it as a gift, finding it in the street, but it cannot be stolen.

Hermann Hesse

#18. Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#19. In the context of the "great mystery" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom.

Pope John Paul II

#20. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

Laurieann Gibson

#21. My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.
Some will love it.
Some will hate it.
That's the nature of art.

Kathleen Baldwin

#22. Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

Ellen Page

#23. You can't buy what you want. It all comes as a gift.

Diane Mott Davidson

#24. To be loved by a man, truly loved, made a woman feel as if she could burst. Of course, Lia was strong and could face the world on her own, but it involved a deeper strength, she felt, to give yourself to another. To trust someone with your heart was a gift ...

Melody Anne

#25. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Leo Buscaglia

#26. To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time - and to be at peace with that.

Daisy Whitney

#27. Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

Suzy Favor Hamilton

#28. Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

Paramahansa Yogananda

#29. One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

David Hawkins

#30. Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.

W.B.Yeats

#31. He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

Arundhati Roy

#32. Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.

Neale Donald Walsch

#33. When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

Brenda Shoshanna

#34. At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#35. Thank you, Lord, I was thinking, as we went deeper and deeper into the earth, because I was a lost sheep, and you brought me back. Because my life was dead, and you revived it. Because love wasn't alive in my heart, and you gave me back that gift.

Paulo Coelho

#36. Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.

John Marsden

#37. If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

Joe Torre

#38. Plant the trees just for beauty,
If flowers bloom or fruits ripen,
Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.

Debasish Mridha

#39. A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

Thomas A Kempis

#40. Do you not think we would be wiser to cherish each moment we have as God's gift? I would say 'tis better to love and be loved, if only for a day, than to have not loved at all.

Jody Hedlund

#41. Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

Norman Mailer

#42. As a parting gift, he gave Harold the key chain from his house keys, the ones that opened the gate to Hamilton Arms: it was a clover, a charm for luck. Its stem was a little drawer, into which, Harold later found, George had put a love note. Harold kept the clover for the rest of his life.

Liz Moore

#43. The word happy is a gift of love from God. A gift of fun, a gift of giggles, no worries, feeling good about yourself. Having a smile as big as the sun.

James V Daniels

#44. To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us
in freedom and with no strings attached
is a way to grant others a liberating gift.

Mark Galli

#45. Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it.

Nora Roberts

#46. Love isn't something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn't convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always

Brian MacLearn

#47. Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Jenna Morasca

#48. It has been a very long time since I've received a gift as extraordinary as you.

Aimee Carter

#49. It was wonderful to be able to play a character who had so many colors and who was able to play comedy, to play incredibly vulnerable, which he did a lot of the time, to play the love story, and to play the relationship with the son, which is quite unusual. That's a gift to me, as an actor.

John Noble

#50. Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they are properly taken care of and given all the love and attention they deserve. If we did so, I have no doubt our world would be drastically different and much more humane.

Laurence Overmire

#51. I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.

Zhu Zhu

#52. As we learn in [the] scriptures, the fundamental purposes for the gift of agency were to love one another and to choose God. Thus we become God's chosen and invite His tender mercies as we use our agency to choose God.

David A. Bednar

#53. True love is something, so very true and very rare to find. So, if you ever find such a thing. Treat it as if it were some treasure. Because, once you find such a thing and set free; it will not ever return. So, treat it as if its your most precious gift ...

Jynnette L. Miller

#54. He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to look at this propensity as a gift, then a curse, and now understands it to be just another way in which he is broken.

Jonathan Tropper

#55. Eternal Trinity ... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being ...

St. Catherine Of Siena

#56. The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and dedicate yourselves in all things in the spirit of love which prompted Our Lord to institute the Holy Eucharist, wherein He perpetuates the gift of His love to the glory of the Father.

Peter Julian Eymard

#57. Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being,

Ellen Page

#58. A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

#59. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

Gladys Taber

#60. God's love was a gift that carried no conditions, no prerequisites, no debt. And even before she'd been born, He knew her. He'd fashioned her in her mother's womb as Eliza had said: special, unique, beautiful, and valuable.

MaryLu Tyndall

#61. As long as he lived, it would always be a pleasure and a gift to fill his hands with the weight of her flesh.

Yaa Gyasi

#62. God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

Martin Luther

#63. Thinking about death ... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

#64. Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world ...

David B. Haight

#65. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love-gift.

Oswald Chambers

#66. Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

Christopher Buckley

#67. Letter writing can be seen as a gift because someone has taken his/her time to write and think and express love.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#68. Well, perhaps you've caught me at a rare moment of weakness. The greatest gift is to be loved as I have been loved. As I love.

Jillian Hart

#69. Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Paulo Coelho

#70. When love is reciprocal, two people reveal each to the other through their mutual appreciation and jointly create something new. I give you as a gift to you. It is a ritual of naming and identity.

Rod Dubey

#71. Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

Hermann Hesse

#72. I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

Mika Brzezinski

#73. He stared at her. "How is it that you're cute, sexy as hell, and smarter than anyone I know?"
She gave him a small smile. "It's a gift.

Jill Shalvis

#74. As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

Juliet Marillier

#75. Sometimes, loving people can be as much of a gift as it is a curse. Because some people ... you can't help but love. Even if you know it will hurt you in the end.

S.L. Jennings

#76. I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

Jacqueline Bisset

#77. I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.

Niecy Nash

#78. Most important, I hope you grow into a woman who loves herself. It is not an easy thing, self-love. It takes a lot of practice and time. But as a woman who is learning how to get there herself, I hope I can give that gift to you as you grow.

Jodie Sweetin