“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 128 of 709
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
“Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.”
“To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.”
“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.”
“The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
“If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.”
“We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.”
“Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.”
“Our bodies need real, fresh food to maintain health.”
“The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.”
“There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.”
“I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.”
“What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.”
“My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.”
“When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself.”
“When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.”
“The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.”
“Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.”
“The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.”