It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…
Helen KellerTags: optimism hope gratitude disability
Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
Helen KellerTags: nature joy suffering gratitude disability self-forgetfulness
(regarding what kind of day she would want to be released) If I had the opportunity to choose, I would want it to be a radiant sunshiny day! And I would love it to be a Saturday morning. I'd go home and take a bath and soak and shampoo and put on clean underwear and clean clothes! And then Sunday morning I want to go to church and thank Gd for freedom -- with capital letters.
Diet EmanTags: gratitude sunshine release
When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.
Lissa RankinTags: gratitude
When I think of how many people in this world have it worse
than I do, I realize just how blessed I really am...
... and I have to give thanks ...
Tags: blessings gratitude blessed thanks
More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else
Philip H. FriedmanTags: miracles forgiveness gratitude
Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
Michael CunninghamTags: life world reflection gratitude
Only unconditional grace can transform a hardened heart into a grateful heart. Only a free gift can demolish any notion of quid pro quo. Only an utterly merciful act of love can fashion a new creation capable of love. As theologian Karl Barth puts it, 'As the beloved of God, we have no alternative but to love him in return.
Mark GalliTags: love grace gratitude barth
You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.
Jenny SampirisiTags: hope infinity gratitude head leap swamp biological-determinism ribbit
For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.
Isaac AsimovTags: praise gratitude magnifico
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