“If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 196 of 709
“Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.”
“I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.”
“We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.”
“Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.”
“A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
“The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.”
“I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.”
“You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”
“They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.”
“Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.”
“I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.”
“Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!”
“Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.”
“Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.”
“You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.”
“I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.”
“My life is a contribution.”
“When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.”
“I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”