Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

Charles Dickens

I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.

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.

Bryan Adams

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

Cheryl Richardson

Never underestimate the power of intention.

Cheryl Richardson

Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

Cheryl Richardson

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.

Cheryl Richardson

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

Eckhart Tolle

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

Eileen Caddy

Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.

Aristotle

What we expect, that we find.

Earl Nightingale

You become what you continually think about.

Barbara Deming

We cannot live without our lives

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

Dogen

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

Berkeley Breathed

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Albert Einstein

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

Margaret Haddix

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,

Manny Pacquiao

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Richard Rohr

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

God comes to us disguised as our life.