“No one is ever ordinary.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 213 of 709
“You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give”
“What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.”
“I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.”
“I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.”
“When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.”
“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”
“Keep your friendships in repair.”
“How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.”
“The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.”
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”
“How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.”
“Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.”
“The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.”
“To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.”
“No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.”
“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”
“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”
“I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.”
“I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.”