Favorite Quotations
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Blessings, 2
How Full Is Your Bucket?
The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war. ~ Lao Tzu The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. ~ Seneca From salad dressings all blessings flow. ~ Paul Newman, Biography, Aug 2003 Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~ George Eliot May the blessed sunlight shine upon you and warm your heart till it glows like a great fire and strangers may warm themselves as well as friends. And may the light shine out of the eyes of you, like a candle set in the window of a house, bidding the wanderer to come in out of the storm. ~ Traditional Irish Blessing Enjoy the blessings of this day... for this day only is ours: we are dead to yesterday, and not born to tomorrow. ~ Jeremy Taylor Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ~ Edgar Allen Poe "Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed. ~ Tony Bennett, The Good Life Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pain, loss, and disappointment. ~ Joseph Addison For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. ~ Clarence E. Hodges It is vital that people “count their blessings:” to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. ~ Abraham Maslow
"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count." ~ Neil A. Maxwell