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"It's hard to explain. It's a love that I never knew existed until I had my first son. Basically what I'm saying is it's the most beautiful thing in the world. It's the biggest blessing I ever had in my life."
"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
"Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces."
"If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised."
"Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share."
"God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them."
"To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible."
"I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing."
"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
"The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing."
"Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!"
"Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . ."
"Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty."
"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
"It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for."
"I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person."
"Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will."
"Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be."