You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
Karl LagerfeldIf you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert HubbardMany people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
Thich Nhat HanhEvery great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John RuskinI care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.
Elon MuskFor me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
Madeleine AlbrightWho is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin FranklinIf I inspire you, pay for it, period.
Nipsey HussleThe fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘
Elizabeth KennyI want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.
Frank OceanI’ve been very fortunate.
Dolly PartonThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckNothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
EpicurusIt’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.
Joel OsteenI’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.
Stephen CurryMy mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
Maya AngelouI never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.
The WeekndSatan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.
Joyce MeyerI thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.
Mr. TI know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
Wayne DyerA lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
Joel OsteenWhen you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!
Joyce MeyerThere are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert EinsteinThe miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother TeresaPride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
Joyce MeyerRight now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
Richard BransonTreat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.
John KennedyBlessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Jesus ChristHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EpictetusI hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
Queen Elizabeth IIGod has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy GrahamI certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
Desmond TutuI wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.
Stephen HawkingMy doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.
Kanye WestI don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.
Stephen HawkingA man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. LewisI’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.
Bob DylanOur prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
SocratesThere is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.
Charles SpurgeonWhen I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.
Lou HoltzI was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.
Dwayne JohnsonSo long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
Barack ObamaThe Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.
Dwayne JohnsonIt is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
AristotleI have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee WilliamsForgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond TutuThrough the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.
Russell M. NelsonA good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.
Joel OsteenI have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor SwiftI work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.
Lady GagaWhen we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert K. ChestertonI’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
Michelle ObamaNot what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EpicurusThe U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.
George H. W. BushIndeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Joel OsteenI have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
DiogenesHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
SocratesI am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
Maya Angelou