Forgiveness Quotes

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

If we get everything that we want we will soon want nothing that we get.

It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Oh my friend it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Generally the man with a good wife or the woman with a good husband or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.

Jesus please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who nevertheless set aside a day of thanksgiving.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you " that would suffice.

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

One of life's gifts is that each of us no matter how tired and downtrodden finds reasons for thankfulness.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

Appreciation is yeast lifting ordinary to extraordinary.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

He has enough who is contented with little.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

More than enough is too much.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.

Nothing in excess.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.