Small Gifts Quotes

• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

  Richard Bach

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

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• Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

  John Bunyan

  Grace, Great Gifts

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.82

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

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Sympathy, Baby

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• He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

  George Herbert

  Giving, Give Me

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1868). “The Poetical Works of George Herbert: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.322

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• Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

  Peg Bracken

  Love, Christmas, Time

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• The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Marriage, Encouragement, Real

  Robert A. Johnson (1983). “We, understanding the psychology of romantic love”, Harper San Francisco

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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Giving, Thankfulness

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, Years

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• You seek problems because you need their gifts.

  Richard Bach

  Needs, Problem, Messiah

  1977 Illusions.

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

  Phyllis McGinley

  Girl, Curly Hair, Heaven

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• 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.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sick, Waiting, Comfort

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• 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.

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Order, Joy

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.150, Souvenir Press

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• 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."

  John Ortberg

  Self, Boredom, Joy

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Zicheng Hong

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Self

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

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Joyfulness

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• 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.

  Whitley Strieber

  Christmas, Mother, Brother

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• 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?

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rivers, Honor

  Mary Oliver (2013). “Dog Songs: Deluxe Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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