Aesop Quotes, Loss Quotes, Blessing Quotes

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

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To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

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According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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That best of blessings, a contented mind.

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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

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All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

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Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.

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Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.

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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

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