Robin Sloan Quotes

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

No, honey. This is for you.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?'

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.

I'm very simple when it comes to gifts, so the best ones that I've received have love as their main intention. I appreciate everything.

It's not about how big or expensive a present is, it's the thought that is so nice.

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

Nobody has ever gifted me anything.

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

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.

It takes very little effort to make someone happy.

I work hard to make a gift to the audience.

We are treated with such generosity of spirit.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.