Quotes for When You Feel Grateful · Page 34

Words that open your eyes to the abundance already present in your life.

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“’Tis a quiet journey of the heart in pursuit of Nature, and those affections which arise out of her, which make us love each other,—and the world, better than we do.”

— Laurence Sterne

“We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.”

— Paul Tillich

“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Other desires and other hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!”

— Emily Brontë

“I love those reformations that prevent revolutions, by keeping pace with the gradual progress of reason and knowledge.”

— Horace Walpole

“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to…”

— David Hume

“Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprizes, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human…”

— David Hume

“We have achieved political freedom but our revolution is not yet complete and is still in progress, for political freedom without the assurance of the right to live and to pursue…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use.”

— George MacDonald

“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”

— Robert Burns

“The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.”

— Robert Burns

“There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country.”

— Walter de la Mare

“Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour—let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.”

— Walter de la Mare

“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves.”

— Louis Pasteur

“My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child…”

— Louis Pasteur

“A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.”

— Romain Rolland

“I hear Siva dancing, dancing in the heart of the world, in my own heart.”

— Romain Rolland

“If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.”

— Frederick William Faber

“I have no cares, O blessed Will! For all my cares are Thine; I live in triumph, Lord! for Thou Hast made Thy triumphs mine.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!”

— Omar Khayyam

“Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me — in vain!”

— Omar Khayyam

“Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup And sold my Reputation for a Song.”

— Omar Khayyam

“What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?”

— Louis Sullivan

“It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.”

— Louisa May Alcott

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