“Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 203 of 709
“It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.”
“Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.”
“O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”
“This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.”
“I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel-track. Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons had Passed over many a time. An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate, Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished, As much as if it had a thousand acres Of untrodden space around it, and never Knew the danger it incurred. It did not borrow trouble, nor invite an Evil fate by apprehending it.”
“Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
“Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.”
“Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.”
“Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.”
“Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.”
“A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.”
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
“Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.”
“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”
“Let your best be for your friend.”
“Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.”