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Grateful Quotes — page 191 of 709
“Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.”
“To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.”
“Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.”
“A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.”
“The more completely we give of ourselves, the more completely the world gives back to us.”
“Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.”
“Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.”
“Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ... then make that day count!”
“By doubting we come at truth.”
“A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.”
“In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.”
“The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.”
“I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.”
“Every great business is built on friendship.”
“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”
“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
“The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.”
“We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.”