“Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 237 of 709
“'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'”
“This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.”
“Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.”
“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”
“I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.”
“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
“Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.”
“True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.”
“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.”
“An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.”
“I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.”
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
“Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it.”
“I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.”
“Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want.”
“Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.”
“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”
“Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.”
“To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.”