My Blessing Quotes - Page 3

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

  Rita Dove

  Blessing, Flames, Names

  Rita Dove (2016). “Collected Poems: 1974-2004”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

  Dale Evans

  Blessing, Thinking, Bed

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• When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Blessing, Eagles

  P.C. Cast (2016). “Divine By Mistake”, p.171, Harlequin

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• Percy," my mom said. "I give you my blessing." "Be safe brother!" Tyson pleaded. "Enchiladas!" Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Brother, Blessing

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.101, Penguin UK

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• For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

  Richard Simmons

  Workout, Prayer, Blessing

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

  James Taylor

  Blessing, Odds, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Blessing, Want, Twirling

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.774, Simon and Schuster

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• I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again.

  Mary Balogh

  Believe, Love You, Blessing

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.336, Dell

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• I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

  Dolly Parton

  Blessing

  Dolly Parton, Randy Schmidt (2017). “Not Dumb, Not Blonde: Dolly In Conversation”, p.10, Omnibus Press

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• I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Heart, Blessing, Dignity

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.51, B&H Publishing Group

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• If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her.  If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.

  Pietro Belluschi

  Blessing, Giving, Trying

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• Then my father's features hardened. "You can't expect my blessings on this disastrous mistake." The words were directed at me, but Vlad responded. "I wouldn't insult you by asking. We both know you disapprove and we both know I don't care. Leila's opinion is the only one that matters, and she said yes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Father, Mistake, Blessing

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• Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.

  Luke Bryan

  Prayer, Blessing, Bed

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• My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

  Danny Gregory

  Art, Blessing, Drawing

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• And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

  Anne Fortier

  Blessing, Dues, Paid

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.444, Ballantine Books

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• I'm delighted that gay people now want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.

  Iris Apfel

  Gay, Blessing, Giving

  "Icon fashion legend Iris Apfel 96 years old and going strong". Queerguru Interview, queerguru.com. 2015.

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• 'Salad Days' refers to a youthful or innocent period. And a lot of people having been asking me already so you jaded? And I'm not, I'm 23. It's me reflecting, I had to re-learn to have fun with music and I had to re-count my blessings.

  Mac DeMarco

  Fun, Blessing, People

  Source: www.quipmag.com

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• Count your blessings. Every time I am doing bad I count my blessings. And I always lose count. Try that sometime.

  Trey Songz

  Blessing, Trying, Loses

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• I laugh a lot and count my blessings.

  Cheryl Ladd

  Blessing, Laughing

  "Style & Substance: Cheryl Ladd". Interview with Farrah Weinstein, nypost.com. August 29, 1999.

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• In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after I allow myself to feel it and be human, I try my best to put things in perspective and start moving forward again. I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

  Trista Sutter

  Pain, Struggle, Moving

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• Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a bottomless abyss, immediately beyond physical recollection.But it's all still there in my heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days to come, like a treasure found and then, voluntarily, surrendered. Returned to the mountains with my blessing. It leaves a golden glowing on the mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Pain, Heart, Blessing

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• I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Blessing, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mario Andretti

  Blessing, Careers, Long

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell and Laini Abraham, www.littlepocketguide.com. May 27, 2011.

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• 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.

  Sandra Bullock

  Blessing, People, House

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• Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

  Henry Van Dyke

  Work, Heart, Blessing

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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