“Everything you think of that keeps you occupied is a friend.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 170 of 709
“Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.”
“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.”
“One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.”
“A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.”
“I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.”
“What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.”
“A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
“Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.”
“Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.”
“I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.”
“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.”
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.”
“The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.”
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]”
“Let each man have according to his deserts.”
“But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.”