Best Small Gifts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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Book:We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

Source: We, understanding the psychology of romantic love

“Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.”

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Author:Phyllis McGinley

“He that gives me small gifts would have me live.”

Giving Give Me Small Gifts

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

“In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.”

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Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.”

Grace Great Gifts Small Gifts

Book:The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford

Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford

“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.”

“When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.”

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Author:Zicheng Hong

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”

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Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.”

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Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.”

“Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”

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Book:Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition

Source: Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition

“Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.”

Dog Joyfulness Small Gifts

Book:Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition

Source: Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition

“Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."”

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Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People