“I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a life.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 18 of 709
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?”
“Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.”
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.”
“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
“The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.”
“It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.”
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.”
“God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.”
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“It is impossible to govern the world without God. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor.”
“We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!”
“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”