Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.

Phoebe Cary

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

Vernon Davis

I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

Robert Fulghum

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Robert Frost

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Rita Dove

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

Thomas Moore

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

Thomas Paine

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Thomas Paine

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Hood

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

Thomas S. Monson

Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

Thomas S. Monson

I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.

Thomas S. Monson

The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God

Thomas S. Monson

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.

Thomas S. Monson

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.

Thomas S. Monson

When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.

Thomas S. Monson

When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.

Saul Bellow

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Sandra Bullock

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof.

Roger Waters

...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

Robert Sheckley

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

Robert Rankin

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

Sasha Azevedo

It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the gifts that God has given me.

Richard M. Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Rebecca Mader

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Samuel Johnson

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.

Samuel Johnson

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

Samuel Johnson

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Ruhollah Khomeini

Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all the worse. Should one kill the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

Rocco DiSpirito

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

Roberto Cavalli

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

Wayne Dyer

I greet every new day with the words, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' That's the state of mind that directs me, fulfills me, and sends me out into the world with a gift to share. It's a blessing that I have learned over a lifetime - to experience the presence of Spirit in most of my waking moments. It's a feeling of contentment and satisfaction, of peace and love.