“I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 167 of 709
“Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.”
“Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.”
“A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.”
“Great floods have flown From simple sources.”
“There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”
“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
“My crown is in my heart, not on my head.”
“In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”
“Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.”
“My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.”
“I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.”
“God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.”
“We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.”
“I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.”
“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”
“The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.”
“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”