Quotes

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
-Charles Dickens

There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.
-George A. Buttrick

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.
-Thomas Goodwin

First of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.
-Emma Hale Smith

May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you.
-Irish Toast

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
-Irish Blessing

May you live all the days of your life.
-Irish blessing, also attributed to Jonathan Swift

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!
-Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1749

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
-Titus Livius

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
-Willie Nelson

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
-Harold Coffin

To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial.
-Anonymous Author

Some wish blessings, others pray for them. Some send blessings and they become one.
-Joyce C. Lock

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
-Hamilton Wright Mabie

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.
-Irish Toast

you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.
-Ralph Marston

Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.
-Irish Proverb

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
-W. T. Purkiser