“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 218 of 709
“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”
“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”
“I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.”
“Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.”
“Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.”
“God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.”
“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.”
“The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.”
“The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.”
“Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.”
“The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.”
“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.”
“I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.”
“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.”
“I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself.”
“God bless the Reference Librarians”
“It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.”
“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.”
“Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.”