“If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 111 of 709
“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
“Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
“You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.”
“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”
“If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.”
“Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.”
“That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.”
“...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.”
“The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.”
“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”
“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.”
“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”
“Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.”
“O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to her hive; so the Priest, having taken the Saviour, God's Own Son, Who came down from Heaven, the Son of Mary, Who sprang up as earth's choicest flower, from the Altar, feeds you with that Bread of Sweetness and of all delight.”
“I want to be rich in all the foods I’ve tasted and all the places I’ve been and all the people I’ve kissed.”
“The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.”
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”