“Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 201 of 709
“The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.”
“I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something.”
“We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.”
“The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.”
“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”
“All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.”
“When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.”
“Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.”
“I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
“All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.”
“I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.”
“He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.”
“I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.”
“A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.”
“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”
“From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.”
“Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.”
“...One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.”
“Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.”