“Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 262 of 709
“You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.”
“The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.”
“My mom's disease, Hodgkin's disease, wiped us out financially. We eventually lost our businesses. I understand we're all one car wreck from needing help. But what it told Lindsey Graham, above all else, is that family, friends and faith really do matter. I'm a lucky man to have had all the support I've had all these years.”
“The fates have given mankind a patient soul.”
“A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.”
“Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.”
“Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.”
“The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.”
“I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.”
“Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.”
“Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.”
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”
“Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed”
“Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.”
“The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.”
“When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.”
“The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.”
“The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.”