“Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 143 of 709
“Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.”
“Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.”
“School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.”
“I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.”
“What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.”
“Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.”
“I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.”
“Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.”
“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”
“The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.”
“The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.”
“Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.”
“Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.”
“When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.”
“Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.”
“As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.”
“Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?”
“Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.”
“How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.”