Quote - "Gifts" - By Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1843

I love this quote of how our true gifts need to come from our true being: 

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of yourself. You must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.