Quotes by Poets - Page 193

Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Gratitude for me is waking up each day, and being able to make a difference in somebody’s life.
Charmaine J.Forde
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.
Anne Michaels
After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India.'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked.'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.
Richelle E. Goodrich
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:Your seeds shall live in my body,And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,And your fragrance shall be my breath,And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.
Kahlil Gibran
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
Maya Angelou
It's bad to grow old before your time. It's worse to not grow at all within your mind,
Stabley Victor Paskavich
It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.al-Futûhât al-Makkiyya
Ibn Arabi
It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.
Richelle E. Goodrich
You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
My world burns severe.Pockets of sweltering air attack every inch of me exposed, heated by fire spewed forth from the lungs of dragons. For defense I raise a glowing sword that shines by virtue of powers contrary to those I fight against. It is a battle that rages on and on for as long as any man can endure. But there are days I feel I cannot―drained and weary unlike these monsters that lash at me as if sustained by an abiding fervor in their bellies. The battle is harsh and my weapons
Richelle E. Goodrich
The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.
Criss Jami
It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.
Anthony Liccione
That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to the notice of every visitor. Rolandsen made no secret of the fact that he had all these medicaments there solely to disguise the aroma of all the brandy he consumed. But this was part of an act designed purely to give himself an air of inscrutability.
Knut Hamsun
They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, to leave room for the others. He was wearing light, fashionable shoes, but seemed unperturbed; he even had his coat unbuttoned in the chilly May wind. ’So that’s the church!’ said the curate. ’It looks old. I don’t suppose there’s a stove in it?’ asked his wife. ’I couldn’t say,’ Rolandsen replied, ’but I don’t think so.
Knut Hamsun
Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in undesirable circumstances, even harsh situations―or you will either rot from the inside or go stark-raving mad. Humor is power against the worst oppression. It lightens heavy burdens; it allows one to smile while in agony; it eases excruciating pains. In short, humor makes the intolerable tolerable.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.
Sarah Kay
Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.
Richelle E. Goodrich
There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.
Anthony Liccione
Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.
Laurence Overmire
I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.
Suzy Kassem
If you don't like the solution, change the problem.
Criss Jami
Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no control, and since I have but one life and that is fleeting, I should strive to do my best. I am like a crustacean attached to a crag on the bottom of the sea. Over me storms rage and huge ships sail; but my entire effort is concentrated upon clinging to the rock, for otherwise I will be carried off by the waters and perish, leaving no trace behind.
Czesław Miłosz
Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?
Richelle E. Goodrich
Gratitude is a grinning attitude.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage.
Richard Lovelace
The stones were sharp,The wind came at my back;Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.
Theodore Roethke
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
William Shakespeare
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
William Ellery Channing
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
Criss Jami
Know thy own point: this kind, this due degreeOf blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee.
Alexander Pope
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
Anthony Liccione
With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.
Jay Woodman
Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.
Anthony Liccione
In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.
Nicholas Trandahl
It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.
Anthony Liccione
Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might live and shareThy glory by Thy side.Give me the lowest place: of if for meThat lowest place too high, make one more lowWhere I may sit and seeMy God and love Thee so.
Christina Rossetti
Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
Joy Davidman
The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!
Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
T.S Eliot
If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;
William Shakespeare
You don’t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I’m here because I’ve been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I’m paying for someone else who has yet to come.
Maya Angelou
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.
Kathleen Norris
Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
Criss Jami
The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves at birth. The second is that attained by great souls. They have surveyed whatever man can know, find that they know all, meet in that same ignorance whence they started. It is a clever ignorance, which knows itself. Those among them who, having emerged from the first ignorance, have been unable to achieve the other & have some smattering of this self-satisfied knowledge, pose as experts. The latter do not disturb people, are no more mistaken in their judgments on everything than others. The masses, the skilled, make up the retinue of a nation. The others, who respect it, are equally respected by it.
Comte de Lautréamont