Blessing Quotes - Page 9

• May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

  P.B. Kerr

  Past, May, Irish Drinking

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• It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

  Ben Stiller

  Parent, Auditions, Comedy

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• Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.

  Kelly Rowland

  Motivational, God, Dream

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• People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Knowledge, Thinking, Knowing

  "Atlas Shrugged". Book by Ayn Rand, Part Two: Either-Or, Chapter One: The Man who Belonged On Earth, p. 346, 1957.

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• Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.

  John McLeod

  Kindness, Kind Words, Pleasure

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• Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Problem, Life Is, Burden

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• An injury may prove a blessing.

  Ovid

  May, Injury, Prove

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• The river knows the way to the sea:
  Without a pilot it runs and falls,
  Blessing all lands with its charity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Fall, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.93, Delphi Classics

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

  Philip Wylie

  Simplicity, Simple Life, Needs

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• All that we behold is full of blessings.

  William Wordsworth

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kids

  William Wordsworth (2016). “Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other Poems”, p.14, Michael O'Mara Books

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• To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

  Kathryn Lasky

  Humility, Owl, Special

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• There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Sowing, Path

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• So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir." As it is inestimable, we seek not to win esteem for it; as it is beyond all praise, we bestow no praises upon it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Stars, Wine, Winning

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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• Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.

  Alan Redpath

  Spiritual, Jesus, Fall

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

  Thomas Hood

  Sorrow, Comfort, Literature

  Thomas Hood, Frances F. Broderip (1860). “Memorials: In 2 Vol”, p.154

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• Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

  George Washington

  Whole Family, Mankind, Impart

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• I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

  Sara Coleridge

  Strong, Book, Men

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.175

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• [On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

  Teresa of Avila

  Father, Comfort, Losing Him

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• A man with courage has every blessing.

  Plautus

  Men

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.146, tredition

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• If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Memories, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

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• And blessings on the falling out That all the more endears, When we fall out with those we love And kiss again with tears!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Kissing, Tears

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, song (added 1850)

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• Blessing is not a technique we perform but a presence we embody. It is not an act we do to someone or something, but a relationship we form with them that enables us all to be embraced in the presence of an unobstructed world.

  David Spangler

  Technique, World, Form

  David Spangler (2002). “Blessing”, p.79, Penguin

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

  Socrates

  Doe, Wealth, Individual

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• Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Giving, Meditation, Tools

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.59, Hachette UK

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