“Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!” Quote by Plutarch
“It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.” YoungActorsPressureSensitiveHurdle Author:Matt Dillon
“No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.” GratitudeSunlight Author:Albert Camus
“Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.” SaidStoriesFeelingsLastsRememberEnjoyTreeCryGratitudeAppreciateGratefulFortuneGrantedGoodbyeGrandfatherYardsGood FortuneMy GrandfatherAppreciate LifeSwine Author:Jose Saramago
“"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."” HumansSelfSufferingHuman BeingsGratitudeGratefulSilverSelf KnowledgeBe GratefulWithin Reach Author:Anwar Sadat
“The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.” PeopleWorldStrongWishGrowthBreakFireBrokenGratitudeIllusionGratefulPersonal GrowthInsightBonesDuesPracticalsAssumptionBe GratefulPurifyingBroken BonePractical ExperiencePurifying Fire Author:Ernest Hemingway
“Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?” IfsWishExamplePerspectiveArmsGratitudeLosingGratefulWhy NotBe GratefulCatastropheInconvenience Author:Eric Allin Cornell
“Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.” HumansHumanityHuman BeingsGratitudeCherish Author:Elie Wiesel
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.” LooksFacesFallEasySidesBehindsGratitudeShadowGratefulBitterSunshineYour FaceBe GratefulJustifiedBehind YouBright Side Author:Walt Whitman
“Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.” GratitudeGratefulHandleBitterRoughSmooth Author:Thomas Jefferson
“People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!” PeopleKnowsValuesWaitingEnjoyLibertySupportGoneGratitudeProtectBitesRecollectionFangsServitude Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
