“He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 273 of 709
“Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.”
“Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.”
“Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.”
“We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.”
“Do not scorn little victories.”
“I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.”
“One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.”
“Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.”
“Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.”
“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.”
“I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.”
“My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.”
“Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.”
“There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.”
“Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.”
“Peace is more difficult than war.”
“For our improvement we need a mirror.”
“For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.”
“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”