“I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 108 of 709
“Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it”
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”
“In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.”
“The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.”
“I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.”
“The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'”
“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”
“A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.”
“The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.”
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
“It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.”
“But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.”
“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
“You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.”
“My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”
“The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for”
“Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.”
“We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.”