“Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 35 of 709
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
“To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.”
“Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”
“The most important time is Now”
“I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”
“The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.”
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”
“It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
“Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.”
“First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.”
“My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.”
“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.”
“The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.”
“Success is measured by the memories you create.”
“We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.”
“There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.”
“Give everything and look for no return.”
“I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.”