“My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 149 of 709
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”
“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks”
“I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.”
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
“Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.”
“True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.”
“Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.”
“Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon.”
“Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!”
“The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.”
“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”
“Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.”
“Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.”
“I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.”
“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
“No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.”
“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”
“Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.”