“God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 124 of 709
“The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.”
“Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.”
“Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”
“Children make your life important.”
“When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.”
“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”
“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.”
“Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.”
“One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.”
“People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.”
“My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.”
“Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.”
“I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.”
“Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.”
“Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.”
“When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.”
“In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.”
“Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.”
“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”