Forgiveness Quotes - Page 5

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

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

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.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Abraham Heschel

Life may be hard but it's also wonderful.

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

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.

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

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!

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

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.

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

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Horace

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?

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

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

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

Georges Duhamel

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

You will never be the person you can be if pressure tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

Dr. James G. Bilkey

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

Honoré de Balzac

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

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.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

Anonymous

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

W Clement Stone

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!

Virgil

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.

William Saroyan

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.

There is no wealth but life.

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

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Charles Kingsley

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

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

Ruth Ann Schabacker

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?

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Honoré de Balzac

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

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

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.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

The advantages of a losing team: (i) There is everything to hope for and nothing to fear (2.) Defeats do not disturb one's sleep. (3) An occasional victory is a surprise and a delight. (4) There is no danger of any club passing you. (5) You are not asked fifty times a day "What was the score?" people take it for granted that you lost.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

The difficulties hardships and trials of life the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly and teach self-reliance.

William Matthews

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.

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Miguel de Cervantes

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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