“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 15 of 709
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
“If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.”
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
“The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
“Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
“Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.”
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
“I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.”
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”
“White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.”
“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.”
“Home is home wherever you grow up generally speaking. Unless you're one of those people who always wants to get out of a small town and do something bigger with your life, which I always did but I always wanted to come back, so home is home and its a great place for me to come back and escape the hustle and bustle of the life that I live.”
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.”
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
“A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.”