To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
To give requires good sense.
Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]
The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain… those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.
I think that people should give gifts by really recognizing the spiritual worth of the person and their (the givers') own worth. You usually give a present that the other person needs or wants, and I think it just emphasizes wants and needs.
He that gives me small gifts would have me live.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters.
Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
I'm asking you to make at least some of your Christmas giving important.
A good gift celebrates the relationship between the giver and the receiver. When you open that box, you feel like, 'Wow, you really understood me.' At the same time, you think this gift could come only from that person.
A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.
