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| Alla människor har fått en gåva. Vissa öppnar sin lite senare. | Svenskt ordspråk |
| De enda sakerna vi behåller för evigt är dem vi ger bort. | Svenskt ordspråk |
| Den som ger utan att vara ombedd, ger dubbelt. | Svenskt ordspråk |
| Den som i grunden ingenting har tagit emot, han har heller ingenting att ge. | Svenskt ordspråk |
| Den som tar emot gåvor, säljer sin frihet. | Svenskt ordspråk |
| Det du inte kan ge bort äger du inte. Det äger dig. | Sören Aabye Kierkegaard |
| Det sätt på vilket en gåva ges är mera värt än gåvan själv. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Det är tanken som räknas. Jag tänkte ge dig en present. | Pex Tufvesson (1974-) |
| Dumheten är också en Guds gåva, men man får inte missbruka den. | Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) |
| Ett vänligt ord kostar dig ingenting och är ändå den bästa av alla gåvor. | Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) |
| Får det lov att vara en cigarr, eller vill herrn hellre ha de tio kronorna kontant? | Klaus Bölling |
| Ge en tiggare en säng, och han kommer att betala dig med lus. | Klaus Bölling |
| Ingen kan ge bättre än han har. | Klaus Bölling |
| Ju mer man ger, desto mindre uppskattning får man. | Klaus Bölling |
| Kvinnan är den enda gåva som presentförpackar sig själv. | Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-) |
| Livet är naturligtvis en gåva - vem skulle våga köpa något så osäkert? | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Mitt hus brann ner till grunden och det enda som finns kvar nu är det jag har givit bort. | Robert Lembke |
| Små gåvor uppehåller den vänskap som stora gåvor har lagt grunden till. | Robert Lembke |
| Äkta framgång föder generositet. | Bhagavad Gita |
| A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return | Bhagavad Gita |
| Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. | Boris L. Pasternak (1890-1960) |
| The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other | Burton Hills |
| Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. | Charles Lamb (1775-1834) |
| Gifts should be handed, not thrown | Danish Proverb |
| The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. | Dave Anderson |
| Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it | Edgar Lee Masters (1869-) |
| If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do | Helen Lawrenson |
| Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. | Joan Rivers (1933-) |
| The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs. | John Osborne (1929-1994) |
| The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention | Julia Cameron |
| A thick skin is a gift from God | Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) |
| When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand. | Lester B. Pearson (1897-1972) |
| The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. | Meryl Streep (1949-) |
| Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift | Minna Antrim (1861-1950) |
| Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection | Pindar |
| The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. | Richard Moss |
| Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion | Robert Burns (1759-1796) |
| Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence. | Sue Atchley Ebaugh |
| Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. | Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) |
| If I were give the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each person to laugh at himself. | Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) |
| A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes | J. Russell Lynes (1910-1991) |
| Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. | Jim Rohn |
| The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace | John Owen |
| I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are | Mexican Proverb |
| Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| What is bought is cheaper than a gift | Portuguese Proverb |
| If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life | Rachel Carson (1907-1964) |
| Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| It is God's giving if we laugh or weep | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return | Bhagavad Gita |
| I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment | Frances Farmer (1914-1970) |
| Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more | Anthony Robbins (1960-) |
| Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift. | Kurt Langner |
| Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| A hug is the perfect gift; one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Love is, above all, the gift of oneself | Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) |
| Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. | Thomas Hughes (1823-1896) |
| I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| A book is a gift you can open again and again. | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. | Barbara De Angelis |
| Inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Gifts burst rocks | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows | Bible |
| First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift | Bible |
| A gift opens the way for the giver and ushers him into the presence of the great | Bible |
| Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give | Bible |
| Because a Bodhisattva who gives a gift should not be supported by a thing, nor should he be supported anywhere.The great being should give gifts in such a way that he is not supported by the notion of a sign and why ? Because the heap of merit of tha | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| What greater gift than the love of a cat? | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| The gifts of bad men bring no good with them. | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious | Homer J. Simpson (1955-) |
| A gift long expected is sold, not given | Italian Proverb |
| The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands. | Jimmy Breslin (1929-) |
| Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. | John Jay Chapman (1862-1933) |
| Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Gifts are like hooks | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Each day provides its own gifts | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift | Minna Antrim (1861-1950) |
| Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours. | Noela Evans |
| Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Don't look a gift horse in the mouth | Proverb |
| A man's gift makes room for him | Proverb |
| A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Reason is God's crowning gift to man. | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| A bad man's gift is like his master | Spanish Proverb |
| The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience, but the gift of office is the dreadful burthen which oppresses him | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who employs that reason to reverence and adore the God that gave it, it is I say, impossible for such a man to put confidence in a book that abounds with | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. | Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
| I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things | William Blake (1757-1827) |
| I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |