“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 239 of 709
“Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.”
“What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.”
“Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.”
“I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.”
“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.”
“Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.”
“God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.”
“I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.”
“You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.”
“It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”
“In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important”
“One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.”
“I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.”
“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.”
“One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.”
“That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?”
“I won't change my legs. because I'm contented with my long-legged.”
“The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.”
“Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”