Forgiveness Quotes

Failure changes for the better success for the worse.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Be grateful for yourself... be thankful.

Life may be hard but it's also wonderful.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

To be alive to be able to see to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Sunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape.

Even though we can't have all we want we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

He who limps still walks.

I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has.

Enjoy the successes that you have and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

When we cannot get what we love we must love what is within our reach.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

While you fear missing a meal you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

If there's no bread cakes are very good.

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.

Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.