Blessing Quotes - Page 11

• To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Spring, Yield, Age

  Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (2009). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.199, Oxford University Press

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• When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

  David Talbot

  Media, Dollars, Literature

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• Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.

  John Assaraf

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sorry

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Mar 05, 2014

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• Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

  Criss Jami

  Blessed, Thinking, Guarantees That

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.52, Criss Jami

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• Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Monkeys, Action, Burden

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Democratic Socialism, What If

  "'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

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• I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

  A. R. Rahman

  Believe, Particular, I Believe

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• I don't want to consider myself a TV5 favorite, but it's a blessing that I have more shows than the others.

  Mark Neumann

  Want, Shows

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• I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

  Terrence McNally

  Thinking, Rights, Alive

  "Terrence McNally: Looking at AIDS Survivors". Interview with Sharon Bernstein, articles.latimes.com. March 4, 1990.

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• Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want… You will discover compensatory blessings when you willingly accept the will of the Lord and exercise faith in Him.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Want, Lord

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• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Mean, Play

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It's a blessing that I can write about it all.

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Writing, I Can, Looking Back

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2015

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• I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

  Tim Scott

  Country, Years, Grandfather

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.

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• The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

  Justin Bieber

  Giving, Able, Position

  FaceBook post by Justin Bieber from Dec 07, 2011

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• These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.

  Wilford W. Andersen

  Strong, Jesus, Heart

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• I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Thinking, Journey

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• Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Afternoon, Thee

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Superficial, Reverence, Quotations

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• The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.

  Darren Flutie

  Opportunity, Play, Canada

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• We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Failure, Adversity, Flames

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• To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Wisdom, Memories

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• When we stand in the light it is not we who illumine the light and cause it to shine but we are illuminated and made shining by the light... God grants his blessings on those who serve him because they are serving him and on those who follow him because they are following him, but he receives no blessing from them because he is perfect and without need

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Light, Perfect, Shining

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• Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Gratitude

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.209, WaterBrook

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• Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Government, People

  "Essay on Mitford's History of Greece" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1824.

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