Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reinhold Niebuhr

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

Raymond E. Feist

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

Walter Anderson

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Wayne Coyne

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

Robertson Davies

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

Walt Disney

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Sarah Dessen

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Sarah Dessen

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Babette March

I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

William Bennett

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Wilkie Collins

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

Rebecca Miller

I'm thankful that everyone got out safely. You always wonder how it's going to be if it ever happens.

James Taylor

I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

David Mitchell

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Chris Linsley

We're so thankful that we've been able to have what's a speedy recovery.

Robert Creeley

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

Richard Paul Evans

...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.

Richard Whately

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind...

Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Woodrow Wilson

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

William Wordsworth

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

William J. Clinton

Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos.