“One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 245 of 709
“We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our CEOs [of the Berkshireoperating subsidiaries], but we promised them they could spend 100% of their time on their business. We place no impediments on them running their businesses. Many have expressed to me how happy they are that they don't have to spend 25% of time on activities they didn't like.”
“The Blood Type Diet has made such a difference - not so much to my shape, but to how I feel and my energy levels.”
“Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.”
“Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.”
“My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.”
“The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'”
“The fact that you're having disagreements with each other isn't a problem -that just shows that there are some areas of your relationship that need to be worked on. And that's normal. People are different, so of course you're going to run into times where your differences come out and rub each other the wrong way. But what's important is that you both commit to work on those differences until both of you are satisfied. When you do that, you're walking the right road together and over the long-run you'll do just fine.”
“It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.”
“Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.”
“Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.”
“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.”
“It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.”
“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”
“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.”
“The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.”
“If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute.”
“The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.”
“Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.”
“After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.”