“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 182 of 709
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
“To a good spender God is the Treasurer.”
“My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.”
“Anytime you part with money, bless it and say - 'There's always more where that came from.'”
“My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.”
“In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.”
“Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.”
“The test of happiness is gratitude.”
“His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.”
“Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.”
“Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”
“You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.”
“He who owns little is little owned.”
“What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.”
“Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.”
“A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
“The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.”
“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”
“Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.”