Accepting Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences…

— Dean Koontz

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

— Satish Kumar

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has…

— Alphonsus Liguori

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your…

— Plato

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

— Georges Duhamel

“For the gifts of Nature belong to good and evil alike; but the proper gift of the elect is grace—that is, love— and they…

— Thomas à Kempis

What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed…

— Galileo Galilei

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

— Melissa Rosenberg

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

— Gad Saad