“Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 72 of 709
“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.”
“I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.”
“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”
“When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.”
“May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.”
“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”
“But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up”
“A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.”
“The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever”
“When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.”
“Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.”
“You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.”
“Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful.”
“I sincerely believe that there is nothing truly great in any man or woman except their character, their willingness to move beyond the realm of self and into a greater realm of selflessness. Giving back is the ultimate talent in life. That is the greatest trophy on my mantel.”
“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like, the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian “improving” literature. You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.”
“To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.”
“Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human qualities.”
“The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.”
“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”