“Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 43 of 709
“What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.”
“You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”
“When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.”
“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.”
“I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'”
“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.”
“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.”
“So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”
“How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.”
“The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.”
“I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.”
“All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.”
“Vivacity is the health of the spirit.”
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”