Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Muir

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

John Templeton

When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others.

Nick Vujicic

You can either be angry for what you don't have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.

Mignon McLaughlin

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

John Woolman

From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in the spirit of this world, and suffering with firmness, they were made a blessing to the Church, and the work prospered.

John Quincy Adams

And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.

Mary Todd Lincoln

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom

Plautus

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

Plautus

A man with courage has every blessing.

Plautus

No blessing lasts forever.

Plato

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

Philip Wylie

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Philip Sidney

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

Paulo Coelho

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Paulo Coelho

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

Max Lucado

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

Marianne Williamson

Bless more; blame less.

Mario Andretti

I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted career. I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

Mario Andretti

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

Mason Cooley

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

Mason Cooley

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Martin Starr

Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.

Theophile Gautier

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

Theodor Adorno

The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.

Michael Bell

All I am is what I create. It's my blessing to share with the world.

It has failed to deliver on its promises to maintain peace and security worldwide and to reduce poverty worldwide, ... One cannot say that the U.N. has been a blessing in Africa.

Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

John Updike

All blessings are mixed blessings.

John Suckling

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear...

James Robertson

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.