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It's hard to be Grateful when you're Hateful.
Grateful alcoholics don't drink, and drinking alcoholics aren't grateful.
Gratitude: I complained I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet.
Gratitude: To be grate-ful is to be grace-filled.
Gratitude: Can't sleep? Try counting your blessing.
If your heart is full of gratitude, there is no room for resentment.
Keep an attitude of gratitude.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. - Dean Martin, 1917-1995, American Singer and Actor
You can observe a lot by watching. - Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame American Baseball Player
In its deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of God in us.
-Kallistos Ware
-Kallistos Ware
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. - St. Francis de Sales
Your own practice can show you the truth. Your own experience is all that counts. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana,"Mindfulness in Plain English"
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894, American Author and Poet
If you don't program yourself, life will program you! - Les Brown, American Speaker/Author/Motivator
"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness. Joseph Fort Newton (1880-1950) Clergyman
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859) Naturalist and explorer
Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. Maltbie D. Babcock
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful? Leo Buscaglia
I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes. EE Cummings
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My country... gave me schooling, independence of action and opportunity for service..:. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay. Herbert Clark Hoover
Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker
He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt. Marcus Annaeus Seneca
When the heart is narrow, the tongue is wide.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim
In prayer we open the gates...of our larger self...God comes in to us and claims his own. - Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, "Gentle Rain Upon the Tender Grass," 1953
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