Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Charles Caleb Colton

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Charles Caleb Colton

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Eckhart Tolle

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

Carl Jung

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Edith Hamilton

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

Meher Baba

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

Mary Pipher

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

Oprah Winfrey

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Rajneesh

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

Al Jarreau

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.

Carlos Castaneda

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

Anthony Trollope

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

Abraham Lincoln

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

Blake Mycoskie

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

Alexandra Adornetto

That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.

Ann Landers

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

Colin Morgan

One of the most important things is to remind yourself of where you are from and be thankful. I don't for a second take anything for granted. That's a good way to start your day.

David Levithan

You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.