“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 39 of 709
“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
“Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.”
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.”
“Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.”
“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.”
“Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.”
“Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?”
“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
“The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.”
“Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.”
“A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.”
“I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.”
“Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not respect or agree with.”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
“What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!”