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"It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty."
"A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states."
"A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them."
"I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it."
"I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess."
"I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself."
"If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners."
"A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope."
"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."
"Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats."
"Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love...it's: Wow, life is good."
"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth."
"Laughter is God's blessing."
"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection."
"Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing."
"This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life."
"With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine."
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
"Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me."
"That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face."
