Blessed Quotes - Page 28

• You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Guilt, Substance

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• May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Grateful, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.58, Modern Library

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• Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Hero, Fate

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• Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Fall

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t need you sensitive, Skulduggery. I need you aloof and irresponsible and arrogant. That’s why I love you. That’s why I let you hang out with me.” “I’m truly blessed.” She grinned. “You love me, too. Once you admit it, everything will be better.” “They’re about to hook up the Cube to the Accelerator,” he said, and turned and walked off. She followed. “You can’t run from your feelings.” “I can walk from them.

  Derek Landy

  Running, Love You, Feelings

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• THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Wild Roses, Sight

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• Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Children, Past, Fire

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• I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far off to hear his voice, no words because I was too distant for speech, and no thoughts - those I saved for later. He bent his head. I loved the hairs on the nape of his neck. He moved his lips. I admired their changing shape. He clasped his hand. I blessed his fingers. Once, the power of my gaze drew his eyes.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Eye, Voice, Hair

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• I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Granted, Minutes

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

  Kenneth Oppel

  Medicine, Failing, Witchcraft

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

  Victor Hugo

  Monsters, Saint, Guarded

  Victor Hugo (1849). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.142

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• What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

  Joe Hill

  Alive, Painful, Ifs

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• A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

  Charles Kingsley

  Fighting, Self, Giving

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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• He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

  Steven Erikson

  Song, Men, Should Have

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• Let me tell you about customs, James," said Lillian. "I am not accustomed to being summoned to someone else's home. You're very fortunate that I came." "I am indeed blessed," Dad told her. "I am also, by the way, called Jon." Lillian looked faintly surprised. "Are you?" "Really?" Dad asked. "Really? I was the only Asian guy who went to our school. I kind of stood out. While you are an identical twin, and I still managed to know your name.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Dad, Home, School

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed." She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.

  Mitch Albom

  Husband, True Friend, Divorce

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• Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Positive, Ideals, Carrie

  "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, archive.org. 1902.

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• Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

  Aristotle

  Summer, Time, Men

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.7,1098 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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• But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

  John Milton

  Song, Time, Babe

  1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 27.

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• I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Dream, Country

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• There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

  Seneca the Younger

  Confidence, Blessing, Self

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• For life is only life when blessed with health.

  Martial

  Fitness, Health, Life Is

  Martial, Andrew AMOS (Professor of Laws, Cambridge.) (1858). “Martial and the Moderns. (A translation into English prose of select epigrams of Martial, arranged under heads, with examples of the modern uses to which they have been applied.) By A. Amos”, p.91

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• To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Forgiveness, Giving, Honey

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.374, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Had I but died an hour before this chance,
  I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,
  There's nothing serious in mortality:
  All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead;
  The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
  Is left this vault to brag of.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wine, Grace

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

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