Forgiveness Quotes - Page 3

Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

Benjamin Franklin

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

How many things there are which I do not want.

Socrates

Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared in whatever situation he is therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.

Lucretius

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

Estonian proverb

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.

Francis Schaeffer

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.

Cicero

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

Anonymous

The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

One of life's gifts is that each of us no matter how tired and downtrodden finds reasons for thankfulness.

J. Robert Maskin

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance chaos to order confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Elizabeth Carter

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

Appreciation is yeast lifting ordinary to extraordinary.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Jean Baptiste Massieu

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Gladys Browyn Stern

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

Hannah Farnham Lee

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

Burmese proverb

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.

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

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?

William A. Ward

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

Booth Tarkington

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

English Proverb

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Generally the man with a good wife or the woman with a good husband or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.

Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Susan L. Lenzkes

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who nevertheless set aside a day of thanksgiving.

H. U. Westermayer

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher

Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.

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

Mankind by the perverse depravity of their nature esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Francois de Fenelon

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

Elizabeth Bowen

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Epicurus

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Mignon McLaughlin

No man can be satisfied with his attainment although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

Frank Swinnerton

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

There must be more to life than having everything.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

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