Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

William Wordsworth

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Richard Gere

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Rebecca Wells

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

Roald Amundsen

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Richard Rohr

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

W. H. Auden

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

Emmanuelle Riva

I love life. I love life to death.

George MacDonald

A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.

Joel Osteen

The love of life is the root of all good.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

Joan Rivers

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

Haruki Murakami

The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

John C. Maxwell

People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

Henri Nouwen

What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.

Jeff Hill

Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household who cared about him and loved him, ... It was evident they were involved in his life. He had that going for him. For all his bumps in the road, he had that foundation there to propel him back to where he should be.

Ben Gordon

We took our bumps early. Some games when you're down, you're like, 'Uh, oh,' you get nervous. I don't know about the rest of the team, but I felt like I just knew we were going to win.

Ryan Kolb

Pierre is a pretty tough team and we're pretty evenly matched. When we play teams that are fast and strong, that bumps us up a notch. We played pretty decent toward the end, but I think we can play better.

Bruce Springsteen

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

Jonah Goldberg

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Mark Donahoe

The market's saying there are more bumps in the road to come.

Lori Wilde

For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.

Nora Roberts

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

Romeo Miller

'Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.