Quotes About Receiving A Gift

#1. When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

Lewis B. Smedes

#2. The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.

Donna Lynn Hope

#3. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
like jewels, small islands.

Gina Gershon

#4. Ignorance is the root of everything that stands in the way of these attainments. Ignorance binds us to suffering; therefore ignorance has to be clearly identified.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

Nikki Sixx

#6. Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love.

Gary Chapman

#7. My story never belongs a Criminal.
Petra Hermans
October 10, 2016

Petra Hermans

#8. Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication,
there is a delay in receiving the expected gift.
He has guaranteed that he will respond
in what He chooses for you,
and not what you choose for yourself,
and at the time He chooses
not the time you desire.

Ibn Ata Allah

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

Hermann Hesse

#10. Merely knowing that you are not the only resister makes it substantially easier to reject the crowd.

Adam M. Grant

#11. How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

David Steindl-Rast

#13. Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.

Joseph Prince

#14. I love you so much, Eden. You're a miracle. My miracle. A gift I never dreamed of receiving. I'm so damn grateful for it.

Maya Banks

#15. I try not to think," Leo admitted. "It interferes with being nuts.

Rick Riordan

#16. Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving;
Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

Richard Realf

#17. And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

C.S. Lewis

#18. For the first time in his life, he was receiving the priceless gift of a woman's unconditional love and acceptance. It contradicted all that he knew about love, all that he had taught others. And he found himself needing it like a drowning man needs air to breathe and solid ground under his feet.

Barbara Branden

#19. Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving ... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

Alexander McCall Smith

#20. The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

Ram Dass

#21. Some men turn away from all this cheap emotion with a kind of heroic despair ... But this too can be an error. For if our emotions really die in the desert, our humanity dies with them.

Thomas Merton

#22. I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.

Roy Harper

#23. God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis

#24. Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.

Deepak Chopra

#25. At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe ... What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?

Alan Cohen

#26. Christianity is the present: it is both gift and task, receiving the gift of God's inner closeness and - as a consequence - bearing witness to Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#27. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.

Antonio Porchia

#28. My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#29. You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,

Abdullah Ocalan

#30. The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening ... there's nothing like that.

Marc Maron

#31. Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

Jimmy Buffett

#32. God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

Saint Augustine

#33. The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.

John Helm

#34. Succeeding, whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it).

George Saunders

#35. The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

George Bernard Shaw

#36. Love is the most precious gift in life. Be grateful for all the love and support you get from your parents, your family and friends. Because nothing is as precious as receiving true and devoted love" - Monsieur Jac Couture

Lily Amis

#37. After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

Rhys Ifans

#38. You may have done some really nifty things in life, but if you think they're going to get you into Heaven, forget it. The only way any of us are going to get in is by receiving God's gift of grace, which is available to every person.

Rick Warren