“We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 138 of 709
“Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.”
“The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'”
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
“You can consider me like fine wine. I just get better with age.”
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.”
“Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.”
“Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.”
“He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.”
“As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.”
“Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.”
“There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.”
“Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.”
“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
“A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.”
“Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.”
“Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.”
“A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.”