Holiday Giving Quotes

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Things must be felt with the heart.

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.