“Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 268 of 709
“I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished”
“We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.”
“Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.”
“I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.”
“Listen to your dreams. They are the whispers of your heart telling you all you'll ever need to be happy.”
“It feels good to give back to the people who support you.”
“As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.”
“In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.”
“All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won't make it harder, I'll be there to cheer you on I'll shine the light that guides you down the road you're walking on”
“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.”
“If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.”
“Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.”
“We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.”
“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
“If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.”
“But let the good prevail.”
“In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.”
“'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.”