Quotes by Authors - Page 177

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
Thomas Fuller
Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.
John Rothchild
Even though we can't have all we want we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
Anonymous
If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape.
Anonymous
Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.
Izaak Walton
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
Thank God for dirty dishes they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry we're eating pretty well. With home and health and happiness we shouldn't want to fuss For by this stack of evidence God's very good to us.
Anonymous
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
G.K. Chesterton
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.
Anne Lamott
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
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
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
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
A Christian could even give thanks for Hell because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.
Anonymous
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
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
You will never be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
Dr. James G. Bilkey
Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.
Bill Veeck
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
Dag Hammarskjöld
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
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Jane Rule
We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
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
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
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
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.
George MacDonald
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 the noblest vengeance.
H. G. Bohn
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
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
They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.
Anonymous
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
Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.
Anonymous
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
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
G. Weatherly
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