Amy Macdonald Song Quotes & Sayings

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Just as we can play beautiful music only when the strings on the violin are in proper tension, so we can grow only when we are stretched from what we are to what we can be. There is no growth without tension. — J. Grant Howard

But the feeling I have, you know, is that I'll never come close to reading all, or even a thousandth- a billionth- of the books I'd probably love if I ever got to them. — Dave Barry

Just as some historians seemed more shocked that the author of the Declaration of Independence had sex with Sally Hemmings than by the fact that he owned her, Clinton received far more censure for his sexual misdeeds than for other moral lapses, such as his politically motivated decision to ignore the finding of a bipartisan panel that issuing needles to drug addicts would save lives and curtail the spread of AIDS without increasing drug addiction. — Stephanie Coontz

According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world. — Richard Allen

This is the thing we must guard against: that others' expectations, especially our families', do not become our own. — Patti Callahan Henry

She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot. — Miranda Liasson

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual. — Isadora Duncan

he wore baggy sweatpants, because Mennonites thought it immoral for a man to show his legs. — Juliet Macur