Gift: (bequest...giving...reward...give )

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. --- Seneca 4BC

Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression. --- Bertrand Wilbertforce

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. --- John Ruskin 1819

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. --- Og Mandino 1923

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences. --- Robert G Ingersoll 1833

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. --- Mother Teresa Of Calcutta 1910

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. --- Dr. Rob Gilbert

Love is love's reward. --- John Dryden 1631

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest. --- Henry Van Dyke

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. --- Jean Anouilh 1910

May it be, oh Lord, that I seek not so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. Because it is in giving oneself that one receives; it is in forgetting oneself that one is found; it is in pardoning that one obtains pardon. --- St. Francis of Assisi

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving ... Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare think. --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. --- Calvin Coolidge 1872

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Eduction alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. --- Calvin Coolidge 1872

O gift of God! A perfect day, whereon shall no man work but play, whereon it is enough for me not to be doing but to be. --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807

Press on: Nothing in the world can take the palce of perseverance. Talent will not' nothing is more common than unseccessul men with talen. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. --- Calvin Coolidge 1872

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. --- Albert Camus 1913

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. --- John Ruskin 1819

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. --- Pierre Corneille 1606

The only gift is a portion of thyself. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

The reward of all action is to be found in enlightenment. (Hindu Text) --- Bhagavad-Gita

Thinking about death… produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious. --- Albert Schweitzer 1875

To give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do Thy will. --- St Ignatius Loyloa 1491

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind. --- Helen Keller 1880

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piese of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. --- Viktor Frankl

You are surrounded by gifts every living moment of every day. Let yourself feel appreciation for their presence in your life and take the time to acknowledge their splendor. --- Lon Nungesser

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. --- Kahlil Gibran 1883