Quotes by American Authors - Page 171

One of life's gifts is that each of us no matter how tired and downtrodden finds reasons for thankfulness.
J. Robert Maskin
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.
Francis Schaeffer
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser
Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes
After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.
Nancy Hale
So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
William A. Ward
Oh my friend it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
You can't appreciate home until you've left it money till it's spent your wife till she's joined a woman's club nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
o.henry
The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.
Roy L. Smith
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
Marya Mannes
There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
Josh Billings
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana
Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.
Joseph Fort Newton
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes
While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.
Dan Millman
Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
John Oliver Hobbes
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
May we never let the things we can't have or don't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
Richard L. Evans
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enjoy the successes that you have and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
Patty Sheehan
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
Margaret Junkin Preston
Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.
John Rothchild
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie
People call me an optimist but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or eventually surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever the first of the miracle drugs sulfanilamide saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.
Julian Simon
An easy thing O Power Divine To thank thee for these gifts of Thine For summer's sunshine winter's snow For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?
Thomas W. Higginson
Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.
Anne Lamott
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith
For one mother joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.
Eileen Stukane
To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .
Elbert Hubbard
Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!
Don Marquis
To be alive to be able to see to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Heschel
When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
Henry David Thoreau
Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
Oprah Winfrey
Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.
William Saroyan
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.
Robert Nathan
You will never be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
Dr. James G. Bilkey
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
The difficulties hardships and trials of life the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.
William Matthews
Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.
Bill Veeck
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me I kind of sit back and feel well if I give this enough time it'll turn out that this was good so I shan't worry about it too much.
William Gaines