Blessings Quotes
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
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Talking to someone, meditating, praying, or just plain crying it out helps. The most important thing after doing any of these things is to let them go. I focus on all of the many blessings surrounding me and all those I love, instead.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Liberty ... is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
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Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.
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A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.
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The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.
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The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
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The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.
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The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and ritual activities, or honors the completed stupa with an altruistic resolve to benefit all beings, then the blessings are such that the Buddha himself could not describe them.
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Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.
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Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
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I recognize women are under a lot more stress today. The things you consider stress are also the blessings in your life.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Reflect upon your present blessings.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.
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Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.
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Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
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Another day to shine your light and give thanks for all your blessings!
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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
