“I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better? Yes, but I'm still pretty proud of myself for having raised such an amazing individual. Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.” DoneIndividualEasyParentWonderfulProudBlessingDaughterMy DaughterLooking BackBeing A Parent Author:Eric Benet
“As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I think we do, as we have an obligation to help everyone within our own borders. The problem is that this automatically gets translated into: "What's the point of having a huge military if we can't bomb people?" That's the problem that I have. Our foreign policy is essentially our defense policy.” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryHelpingProblemMilitaryPolicyBlessingObligationForeign Policy Author:Michael Hastings
“I wish people knew how down to earth and cool I am. A lot of people think that I'm this high and mighty, bourgeoise girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. I'm a super fun girl that is obsessed with my family and friends and just love to have fun and be a blessing to people! That's it! I'm very simple!” PeopleThinkingEarthGirlFunWishSimpleBlessingMy FamilyHaving FunObsessedSilverFamily And Friends Author:Kierra Kiki Sheard
“I want to be remembered as kind and generous of spirit and someone who loved to laugh and that I never took my blessings or other people for granted. That the stories I chose to tell benefited the world in some way instead of taking away from it. When I am remembered, I want that person to have a smile on their face.” PeopleWorldKindSpiritLaughingBlessingGrantedGenerousMy Blessing Author:Melanie Nicholls-King
“I believe our nation is in deep trouble. We seem to have lost our identity because in many ways we're separated from God. I believe it's imperative that God's people pray as Daniel did, or our nation may unravel morally and spiritually to the point of no return. I believe we desperately need the blessing of God.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveTroubleIdentityPrayingBlessing Author:Anne Graham Lotz
“Everyone has their own struggles, but I never question the road I'm on. I'm a firm believer in the notion that "everything happens for a reason," so even if sometimes you think you're facing a problem, really it's just a blessing in disguise.” ThinkingSometimesReasonProblemStruggleBlessingBelieverThings HappenFirmDisguise Author:Nikki Yanofsky
“It's both a blessing and a curse. It's great having that goal and never settling, but at the same time I am rarely satisfied with things. I usually walk off stage thinking I can do better next time, it has to be more, more, more. Sometimes you have to just sit down and be like, "I'm in New York right now doing what I love." Look at all these things - I won a EMA last week.” ThinkingSometimesGoalWeekBlessingSettlingCurseNext Time Author:Zara Larsson
“I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.” ThinkingBlessingCurse Author:Terry Zwigoff
“I think, certainly, Barack Obama has created an opportunity for America to understand that diversity is a blessing, diversity is a strength. It isn't necessarily something to be concerned about. And I think, at the end of the day, we're going to learn that this country operates best when it celebrates and surrounds itself and appreciates diversity, and doesn't shun it.” ThinkingCountryOpportunityBlessingDiversityConcernedAppreciateCelebrateBarackSurround Author:Tom Vilsack
“Having my Canadian citizenship is a blessing at this time, and there's a part of me that feels very much one foot in and one foot out, and I know I can go back to Canada whenever. There are a lot of things that Canada does really well are the same things that are very messed up in the U.S., but I know that's a pretty self-centered stance. I don't know. It can be pretty discouraging, particularly in a city like New York. It's hard to see so many of the issues happening in the country in an up close way, but at the same time, there's a sense of positive solidarity here.” CountryBlessingSolidarityCitizenshipDiscouraging Author:Tei Shi
“People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.” PeopleWorldTryingBelieveKidsResponsibilityBlessingAssumingChaosReally Amazing Author:Amandla Stenberg
“I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually a blessing for me. It helped for me to see the light. Once you get the rug snatched from under you - I had my career and family snatched from me, and I was forced to just sit there in that box for three years and think about what I did and how selfish I was, it made me really see things with new eyes, like, hold up, why was I doing that? What the hell was I thinking about? I gotta change. Something's got to give. I can't ever come back in this place again.” ThinkingGivingEyeTogetherHellBlessingSelfishPrioritiesLocked UpSelf DestructiveSelf Destruct Author:Prodigy
“The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.” SpiritualPrayingBlessingNew Testament Author:Sam Storms
“God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to receive from God apart from prayer what he's clearly told us in Scripture will be ours only through prayer.” PrayerBlessingScriptureGod Love Author:Sam Storms
“From the beginning, God designed a world in which his image bearers - male and female together - were his A-Team for getting things done in the world. It was more than "wouldn't it be nice if men and women could get along better." God knew this was the way his world would work best and we would flourish as he intends. Men and women - together - in an alliance that received God's explicit blessing.” MenWorldDoneTogetherNiceBlessingMen And WomenFemaleBeing NiceExplicitGetting Things Done Author:Carolyn Custis James
“I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.” WorldSpiritualSpiritualityChallengesCompassionPathFocusTeacherBlessingRealizationGod LoveEnlightenedUnconditional LoveUnconditionalSelectSpiritual Experience Author:Radhanath Swami
“The blessing and the curse of not having a huge hit... you can go in and out of roles and some people know who you are and some people don't. I'd love for one of these movies to be super successful because then at least you're presented with more opportunities.” PeopleOpportunitySuccessfulBlessingWho You AreCurse Author:Patrick Wilson
“I've been blessed to work with some good people as well as different actors. So it's a blessing to be able to have friends who... the friendships are a result of projects that you've worked on together.” PeopleDifferentTogetherBlessingBlessedGood People Author:Kim Fields
“I will tell you that what gives me a sense of joy is having work to do that justifies pouring every ounce of energy I have into it. That's really a blessing to have in your life. And it gives you energy back when you have the privilege of doing work that makes you feel that way.” GivingJoyEnergyBlessingJustify Author:Al Gore
“The wildwood is everywhere. It's inside us. It's outside us. And, of course, if you happen to be near any of the more ancient forests, not just in Europe; then, you are in touch with the source itself. But for me, it's about journeying into an inner landscape that is deeply embedded within us. We have a wild nature that most of us have forgotten, but it's there. And it's both light and dark. There are ancient atavistic things that need to be approached with care. But even these, if faced up to, can bring blessings.” CareDarkBlessingForgottenAncientEmbeddedLight And Dark Author:John Matthews
“The rise of the prosperity gospel is one of the great challenges to the true message of Jesus Christ. While not an expressly Western problem, the promises of this false teaching are often deeply rooted in Western materialism and worldly wealth. Teachers focus on a temporal reward as evidence of God's blessing, often ignoring the greater issues of justice, reconciliation, and redemption so needed in the world today.” WorldProblemTodayJesusChristChallengesWealthJusticeFocusTeacherTeachingPromiseBlessingEvidenceJesus ChristWesternProsperityRedemptionMaterialismWorldlyReconciliation Author:Ed McBain
“Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.” GivingCuttingBlessingFaithfulCurseWiser Author:Randy Alcorn
“Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.” TryingCountryVirtueBlessingRacismElectionSexismFrightening Author:Annette Bening
“The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.” ChildhoodBlessingAppreciate Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.” ThinkingHelpingAgeCreativityDisciplineBlessingFirst TimeOkayMovedDancingWork OutAwakeningI RealizedRealizationDancerHelp MeBalletAdulthoodDisguiseGoing To WorkFrustratingModelingBallet Dancer Author:Diane Kruger
“I do feel incredibly blessed in my life. I've been given amazing opportunities in my life and even when I'm tired, like right now, I try not to lose sight of all the blessings in my life. I'm enjoying it. It's what I've always dreamed of doing. I don't know if I'll ever get to the point in my life where I feel like 'I've made it'. But right now I'm happy with where things are at and hopefully it will continue to grow.” TryingOpportunityEnjoyBlessingBlessedTiredHopefully Author:Teresa Palmer
“Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.” TodayChoicesPerfectBlessingBlessedConfessionBeing Blessed Author:Kel Mitchell
“My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.” MindKindFatherBlessingCurse Author:Peter Vack
“Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of happiness today -count blessings, memorize Bible verses, pray, sing hymns, spend time with encouraging people. Do you want to guarantee tomorrow's misery? Then wallow in a mental mud pit of self-pity or guilt or anxiety today assume the worst, beat yourself up, rehearse your regrets, complain to complainers.” PeopleThinkingRunningTodayWorstRegretPrayingTomorrowBlessingAnxietyGuiltAssumingMiseryCarefulComplainingBe CarefulVersesEnd TimesSpend TimeWant To Be HappyComplainers Author:Max Lucado
“I find I'm most challenged by things I really care about, because I really want to do them well. It causes quite a bit of anxiety. But that very thing you're afraid of is kind of like a blessing in disguise. If you didn't have that fear, you wouldn't have the other side - courage and bravery, positive emotions.As an actor, you get used to those fears, and you're almost happy when they show up. It makes you learn your lines and prepare.” KindCareEmotionBlessingAnxietyBraveryDisguiseVery Positive Author:Jeff Bridges
“I know I didn't do anything to desire the talent, that God gave me. What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living! I know I'm very privileged to get to do that, so - that said I don't want to take that for granted! I want to do everything I possibly can to make it worth my while, make it worth God's time. With that comes a competitive advantage - I think I'm pitching for a lot more than just winning a baseball game, trying to honor Him in everything I'm doing - and winning's pretty fun too! So, I like doing that!.” ThinkingTryingDesireWinningFunTalentHonorBlessingBaseballGranted Author:Clayton Kershaw
“I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.” TodayChoicesSinPerfectGriefBlessingBlessedConfessionBeing Blessed Author:Kam Williams
“I am making an effort to truly live. I don't mean to imply by that that I haven't been alive before but, with my son being here and such a powerful force in my life, he's given me a freedom to be more. I think that sometimes we can get stuck, and just the fact that he's here says so much to me about my own existence. I didn't think I'd be able to have children, and this level of blessing is something I can't even put my finger on.” ThinkingMeanChildrenSometimesPowerfulEffortExistenceSonBlessingStuckMy Son Author:Jill Scott
“I'd be the first to agree that capitalism bestows its blessings unevenly. But that wouldn't persuade me to think it was a good idea to do away with those blessings in their entirety. That said, there is lots of work to be done to make capitalism work better, and to broaden its blessings far more widely not only in America, but all over the globe.” ThinkingDoneBlessingCapitalismAgree Author:John C. Bogle
“I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years I said to him, "Listen, man, I want to leave your band." He goes, "Why?" I said, "Because I want to develop not just as a bass player, but I want to get more into composition, into producing, and I'm working with Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross and all these guys, and I want to really see how much I can grow and develop." He actually gave me his blessing.” MenBeautifulGuyPlayerCoupleBlessingCompositionLutherFranklin Author:Marcus Miller
“I didn't choose to be a guitar player. That was something that felt like it was chosen for me. And with that blessing and curse, I, throughout my entire career, it's been my job to weave my convictions into my vocation. And whether I'm standing in the streets of Chicago or the Occupy Wall Street or in Madison, Wisconsin, my job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level, for the things that I believe in.” PeopleBelieveFightingI BelieveJusticeStrugglePlayerWallBlessingSocial JusticeConvictionChosenCurseSailVocationBackboneGuitar Player Author:Tom Morello
“We're not going to fix the sexual harassment epidemic unless we can acknowledge that this is not a women's issue, this is a man's issue. The burden should not be on the shoulders of women only to solve this, because we can't do it alone and it's not fair. We're seeing now the tsunami of all these women coming forward, which is such a blessing. But the tipping point will be when men in the workplace decide to be our allies.” MenBlessingBurdenAcknowledgeWorkplaceHarassmentTsunami Author:Gretchen Carlson
“Hijras earn a living by egging, sex work, badhai or blessing. There are now transgenders in social work, the fashion industry, who have PhDs. I say, "Study, study, study." You need not wear a sari, and even our ancestors said you need not wear feminine attire to be part of the third gender. When I started bar dancing, nobody else was doing it. When I joined the social sector in 1999, there were no nonprofit organizations working for the rights of hijras in India. But I had to do it, I wanted my dignity.” StudyFashionBlessingDignityDancingGenderFeminineAncestorTransgenderFashion Industry Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our blessings and curses will come true. People give us money because they are scared of our curse. Now that's the only way hijras can survive - by saying, "Give me money, otherwise I'll curse you." That clap, which scares people, has become our identity. In a way, you use myths and misconceptions for your own survival.” PeopleGivingBelieveIdentityBlessingSurvivalBlessedScaredMythCurseScareMisconception Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being too serious about what we do with because at the end of the day if you're here it's a blessing. It's you know life is hard. Life is hard for everybody at some point, but it's those who are able to laugh at it and laugh with it and roll with it that ultimately I think live the fulfilling lives that we're all trying to do. You know, and big step there is to not take yourself too seriously from the start.” ThinkingTryingUniverseExistenceLaughingSeriousBlessingFulfillingLife Is HardHard Life Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I'm always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a blessing for me to be here. I was never supposed to be here. I'm the black council estate kid, single parent, from West London, with friends that are in jail, friends that have committed heinous crimes, friends that are doing nothing. I'm not supposed to be here, therefore I have nothing to lose. I'm always going to work harder than everyone else because if it doesn't work, "So what?".” KidsParentBlackAchieveCrimeHard WorkBlessingCommittedGoing To WorkWork HarderSingle Parent Author:Noel Clarke
“If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.” PeopleIfsKindBlessingBe KindCaliphs Author:Abu Bakr
“Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give something a name has always been an immensely powerful thing. To name something is to own it, to capture it. A poem is still a kind of spell, an incantation. Historically, a poem also invoked: it was a blessing, or a curse, or a charm. It had a motile power, was able to summon something into being. A poem is a special kind of speech-act. In a good poem there's the trance-like effect of language in its most concentrated, naked form.” GivingKindArtLanguagePowerfulSpecialBlessingImpulseCursePoetry Is Author:Nick Laird
“I didn't realize what I was doing, but once I realized, I was like "this is a gift, let me do this the right way." I don't gotta rush nothing, I don't have to be impatient. Because when you have a gift with something, it's a blessing. You just use it. You don't have to do anything drastic, because it's in you. People told me what it was, and I just stuck with it.” PeopleRealizingBlessingLet MeI RealizedStuckImpatientDrastic Author:The Jacka
“The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we didn't live in families. We lived in small communities that gave us our sense of safety and place in the world, so the natural answer would be "for my people." The blessing and the tragedy of modern life is that we don't need our community to survive anymore. When we lose that idea, we lose a sense of who we are.” PeopleWorldCommunityNaturalRiskModernDyingBlessingMy FamilyTragedySafetyProfound Author:Sebastian Junger
“I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a blessing because the work gets more exposure, especially that particular play and then other works of yours too. And then it's a curse because people anticipate that you will write something like you've already written. I think it's really wrong because, you know, I think, as a writer, I'm in a process and I'm somewhere in that process, and I need to continue to develop.” PeopleThinkingWritingLike YouBlessingCursePrize Author:Nilo Cruz
“For me, the worst set is always when something happens to your equipment. Or back in the days your records wouldn't arrive and you couldn't perform in front of people. The best for me was performing for the Love Parade. That was kind of a blessing. I was never respected as an electronic artist. I was very big as a hip-hop DJ in my home town and in Germany. And then becoming an electronic artist, it was very hard for me to fight my way up. It still is, to be honest. I can still watch the Love Parade on YouTube, and I still put my hand over my head.” PeopleKindHomeArtistFightingWorstHonestBlessingThings HappenMy WayBeing HonestPerformingHome Town Author:Loco Dice
“Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.” NeedsChildrenNationsSeeingBlessingStandardsAssetsDeficitMeasuring Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” KnowsLifeInspirationalSpiritualDeathPurposeGivenMistakeSilenceEventsBlessingQuietYogaOptimisticCoincidenceAppreciate LifeBlessings In DisguiseYour Purpose In LifeGiven LifeStained Glass WindowsCoincidence In Life Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross