Thanking For Gift Quotes & Sayings

I can't just go to McDonald's after I'm done working out. I'm going to treat my body like it's the only body I'm ever going to have. I'm going to make sure it's strong and it's good. I'm really going to work hard every single day. — Bryce Harper

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama! — Dalai Lama

Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima! — J.R.R. Tolkien

You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends. — Howard Marion-Crawford

In all my life only that dream is real. — William Shakespeare

Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong. — Mark Hoppus

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history
hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death. — George Eliot

The Instant

Today
one small snake lay, looped and
solitary
in the high grass, it

swirled to look, didn't
like what it saw
and was gone
in two pulses

forward and with no sound at all, only
two taps, in disarray, from
that other shy one,
my heart. — Mary Oliver

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. — Alan Cohen

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. — Kit Williams

Well, anyway, I'm not a Catholic. — Rush Limbaugh

The thank-you thing had been drummed into us intensely when we were growing up. We had three great-aunts, on my mother's side, who believed that when they dropped a present in the mail, your thank-you note should essentially bounce right back out of the mailbox at them. If it didn't, the whole family, cousins and second cousins and all, knew about your lack of gratitude (and, come to think of it, common sense, as the threat was always that no more presents would be forthcoming, ever), and you heard about it from multiple sources. The notes couldn't be perfunctory, either - you had to put real elbow grease into them, writing something specific and convincing about each gift. So Christmas afternoon meant laboring over thank-you notes. As children, we hated this task, but when I saw Mom beam as she thanked people in the hospital, I realized something she had been trying to tell us all along. That there's great joy in thanking. — Will Schwalbe

Soon there would be the evening call to prayer and all over Zinder people would be thanking Allah for the gift of one more day, of one more moment in which to live and breathe. — Kathleen Hill

What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed
blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking. — Will Schwalbe

If we read the Scriptures, we shall renewed our mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up. — Tamara L. Chilver

I'm an American TV show buff. I can watch them nonstop for days. — Anushka Sharma

In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies. — Porphyry