Quotes by American Authors - Page 172

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.
Herbert Hoover
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
Leo Buscaglia
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock
Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
Normal day let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you love you bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth or bury my face in the pillow or stretch myself taut or raise my hands to the sky and want more than all the world your return.
Mary Jean Iron
The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.
Meridel Le Sueur
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
Robert E. Lee
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
Horace Bushnell
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.
Harvey Fergusson
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.
Catharine Marshall
To understand is to forgive even oneself.
Alexander Chase
I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have get be what I wanted.
Ceanne DeRohan
The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.
Eugene Kennedy
If you haven't forgiven yourself something how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
Gerald Jampolsky
To forgive is the highest most beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
Catherine Ponder
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
Catherine Ponder
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other because of many kindnesses because of luck. ... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman
The best proof of love is trust.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
One is as one is and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
Marya Mannes
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
Rae Foley
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge and it ain't worth it.
Louis L'Amour
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
Carrie Fisher
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis L'Amour
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.
Louis L'Amour
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Dr. Robert Anthony
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.
Abigail Van Buren
Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.
Dorothy Thompson
If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
Rollo May
Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hate is not a good counselor.
Victoria Wolff
Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate.
Kathleen Norris
Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
Douglas V. Steere
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher
Hate would destroy him who hated.
Louis L'Amour
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy
I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!
Willa Cather