Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. —Gerald W. Johnson More about this quote Tags: heroism myth popularity hero worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. —Antonio Porchia More about this quote Tags: calm well-being Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it. —Ben Franklin More about this quote Tags: humility pride irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A poor man was so distressed at how small and crowded his house was that he went to see his rabbi for advice. The rabbi told him to go home and move his goat into the house, then to come visit the rabbi again in a week. The man did as he was told and returned to the rabbi a week later. "How is it now?" asked the rabbi. "Impossible," said the man. The rabbi instructed the man to go home and move all his chickens into the house, then to return again in a week. A week later the man was banging on the rabbi's door. "How is it now?" asked the rabbi. "Impossible," the man replied. "I cannot go on like this." The rabbi told the man to go home, take the chickens and the goat out of the house, and return again in a week. Once more the man did as instructed. The next week the man stood at the rabbi's door with a broad grin and a well-rested manner. "So," the rabbi said, "now how is it?" "A blessing on you, Rabbi," the man said. "My life is so much better. I don't know how to thank you. —Hasidic folktale More about this quote Tags: advice space perception blessing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. —Elizabeth Carter More about this quote Tags: gratitude happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. —Jackie Windspear More about this quote Tags: life gratitude prayer grace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: love hope change happiness seasons spring interest weather Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: virtue gratitude existence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. —William Arthur Ward More about this quote Tags: feeling gratitude giving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. —Nancy Friday More about this quote Tags: gratitude children parents debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. —Cynthia Ozick More about this quote Tags: attention gratitude presence taking for granted Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No! —John Stuart Mill More about this quote Tags: change self happiness joy opinions self-consciousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. —Marcus Antonius More about this quote Tags: grief suffering anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: politics sin sorrow Republicans Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. —Alphonse Karr More about this quote Tags: gratitude perspective roses thorns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email