Famous Quotes & Sayings

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Taylor Swift

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.

Talib Kweli

The most important time in history is - NOW - the present, So count your blessings cause time can't define the essence.

Tony Robbins

I'm going to make my life everyday about being a blessing in people's lives. If I'm a blessing to people's lives, then there will be nothing to worry about again.

Paulo Coelho

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Paulo Coelho

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. I don't want anything else in life. But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known. Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived. Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Oh, God, give me grace for this day. Not for a lifetime, nor for next week, nor for tomorrow, just for this day. Direct my thoughts and bless them Direct my work and bless it. Direct the things I say and give them blessing, too. Direct and bless everything that I think and speak and do. So that for this one day, just this one day, I have the gift of grace that comes from your presence. . . .

Max Lucado

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

Neale Donald Walsch

Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

John F. Kennedy

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

John F. Kennedy

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Jonathan Edwards

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Joyce Carol Oates

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

Katey Sagal

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Kate Adie

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

Paulo Coelho

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

Paulo Coelho

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.

Quentin Crisp

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing.

Phoebe Cary

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

Joyce Meyer

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

Paul Tillich

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Ovid

An injury may prove a blessing.

Peter Greenaway

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

Pope Benedict XVI

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it.

James M. Barrie

Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Joan Didion

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

John James Audubon

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.