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Personalized college graduation gifts or unique high school graduation gift ideas embrace your graduate’s individuality!

It can be a wonderful way to send your graduate off to the world with a personal gift that helps them remember that they are different and special.  Envisaging a unique graduation gift idea for your college or high school grad doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Try thinking about what makes your graduate so special…

What gift do you give to a college graduate who has come so far and is finally moving on to the next stage of his or her life…only to be starting at square one again?   For a college graduate in particular, the idea of being a little fish in a big sea can be scary.  Especially when combined with the pressure of having to stand out and be different than everyone else.  Perhaps this quote can provide some relief for graduates…

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.” ~Robert Orben

The irony lies in the fact that the college and high school graduates have a world of possibility in front of them and the challenge is to find their own personal niche.   To help them along their way, why not consider personalizing their high school or college graduation gift?

Unique college and high school graduate gift ideas with a useful purpose

Graduation gifts should be personal and serve a useful purpose. Personalized stationery supports both these goals.  Here are some ideas for gifts for the graduate:

• Personalized correspondence cards for interview thank you letters certainly make your graduate stand out!

  

• Notepad paper sculptures add a unique look to your graduate’s desk and won’t go unnoticed.

  

• Collegiate stationery/notepads serve as an effective way for graduates to start promoting themselves.

  

• Personalized graduation square pads will help them organize and remember all their appointments.

  

• Eco-friendly personalized stationery promotes an environmentally-conscious attitude that our high school and college graduates will appreciate.

  

You can try searching here for more ideas for gifts for the graduate.

Personalize your Graduation Gift with your own special message

Adding a quote or slogan to your graduation gift idea is an excellent way to convey an inspirational message or just a funny recollection.

Recently, a college graduate reminisced of how her father would always tell her, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” Even when times were tough, she remembered her father’s words.  And now she makes sure to add this quote to her personal signature in all her memos to inspire others.

Fun personalization ideas for your gift

Consider personalizing your graduation gift with these quote ideas:

• “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”
• “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
• “Get a Job!”
• “No more freeloading!”
• “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.”
• “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

Personalizing your graduation gift with a quote will help your high school or college grad on their way to finding their individuality and realizing their personal success, while reminding them that you are always close.  Your personalized graduation gift provides an encouraging reminder of just how proud you are of your special graduate. Find more ideas for graduation quotes to use on your personalized gift on Thinkexist.com.

Make your gift standout with customized College and High School Graduate Gifts

Whether it’s a personal or comical message, your graduate will cherish your personalized gift idea for a long time.  It’s important that every graduate knows that there will be challenges in life after graduation, but like your unique college/high school graduation gift idea, they should remember that they are exceptional!

There’s nothing more romantic than a love letter on Valentine’s Day

Penning a real true love letter should not be a dying art. In fact, with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, the economy still sleeping, and a general move towards conservation; this year the Love Letter is not only terribly romantic, it falls in tune perfectly with the times.

Even more precious has the love letter become as the digital age grows. Long before texting on the cell phone, in times of long Victorian Courtships writing one’s passions was one of the only societal ways of expressing such feelings. A whole courtship could be conducted by the posts sent to mail. Alas, the text is fleeting, and what chance does “i<3u” have when paired against writings such as this Valentine love letter written in 1810 :

Oh My William! it is not in my power to tell thee how I have been affected by this dearest of all letters – it was so unexpected – so new a thing to see the breathing of thy inmost heart upon paper that I was quite overpowered, & now that I sit down to answer thee in the loneliness & depth of that love which unites us & which cannot be felt but by ourselves, I am so agitated & my eyes are so bedimmed that I scarcely know how to proceed…

Not many can claim to be married to well known English Poet, William Wordsworth, but many people do experience the same feelings of apprehension and permanence that are so beautifully penned here by Mary, his wife. When one is face with a clean sheet of paper and require, or compelled, to take a pen to it, the paper itself is a vast expanse and one might hesitate, with self doubt, to commit the ink. We grow apprehensive.

But on the same token, the act of putting something down to paper, such as expressing one’s feelings in a true, romantic love letter, is so much more powerful than words merely spoken. Listen to what Mary does say, so beautifully, despite all her agitation:

…so new a thing to see the breathing of thy inmost heart upon paper that I was quite overpowered…

She is responding to a love letter written to her by him. We don’t know what William said, but her response is clear. She no longer speaks of the letter as a thing; it is now an entity, an extension of his heart, alive on its own and she is all now a flutter.

That’s the power of a Romantic Love Letter

The good thing about a love letter, no matter how apprehensive one might feel, there is really no way of doing it incorrectly. The thought of a true heartfelt expression of passion is fulfilling.  Just the nature of the note, the physical act itself, is romantic all by itself.  Sweet, simple, witty, trite, silly, or sexy; the letter itself only needs be an extension of oneself.

What Makes a Love Letter a Love Letter? 

A true Love letter is from the heart. It is the abandonment of what holds us back as we stare at the glaring piece of whiteness. We all have been there; we know what it feels like; that blank paper, the blank mind. That someone would drive through the fears of foolishness or rejection, only to produce written proof of their adoration alone makes the love letter more precious. 

That’s one of the reasons why there’s not a wrong way to write a love letter, there is just the need to actually write it. 

Prove your love this Valentine’s Day. Get over your fear. It is only a piece of stationery. There is nothing to be afraid of.