Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
Brene BrownIt is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Kurt VonnegutI’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.
Billy GrahamI always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.
Ariana GrandeI have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan QuayleThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleI 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 IIInstead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!
Joyce MeyerMost people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.
Robert KiyosakiI am who I am today because of my mother.
Kevin HartI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil GibranI don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.
Joel OsteenI am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody AllenWhether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai LamaIf we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
Thich Nhat HanhOne looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl JungThe important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe BryantAIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
Bill GatesMy mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.
Bad BunnyYou cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel JohnsonBeethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig van BeethovenWhenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che GuevaraEach doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.
Jurgen KloppPhilanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
Bill GatesThere are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert EinsteinI feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.
DJ KhaledFriends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van BeethovenThe U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.
George H. W. BushIn a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
Taylor SwiftI want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.
Frank OceanTo us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas CarlyleNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
Alice WalkerYou can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
Benjamin DisraeliSmall is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert EinsteinJust like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.
Jurgen KloppYou can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. ThompsonEvery blessing ignored becomes a curse.
Paulo CoelhoI rely on other people every day of my life.
Abby Lee MillerI’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
Matthew McConaugheyThis is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.
Ariana GrandeGrief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark TwainI’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe BryantAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen KellerWhat difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHow lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
Mark TwainWe care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.
Angelina JolieWith Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
Abraham LincolnHelping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
Thomas SowellI thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
Kurt CobainMost of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Jackie ChanWe sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George OrwellIn Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.
Thich Nhat HanhNothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LeBron JamesWhen younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
Maya AngelouI’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Billy GrahamAn employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.
Anthony BourdainYour friend is your needs answered.
Khalil Gibran