Friday, February 11, 2011

Quotes

I decided, today, to just find a bunch of quotes. I think they're cool! Enjoy.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.  ~Frank A. Clark
I find that I have a really hard time with this concept. I don't seem to take enough time to sit and ponder the things I do have. I have health. I have a baby coming. I have had a really easy pregnancy. I have a lot of family that does love me. I don't really have any financial worries, I know that I will be taken care of. I am in school getting ready to get a good job. I have opprotunites for growth.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!  ~Henry Ward Beecher
I want to open my mind a little more and look for these mercies. They are everywhere.


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.  It's a way to live.  ~Attributed to Jacqueline WinspearOnce upon a time I looked up the word grace and wrote the definition on my mirror so I could look at it every day. I wanted to be gracefull. Maybe I should look at the meaning again so I can live by grace.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.  ~W.T. Purkiser
Gratitude is technically a noun, but it sure seems like a verb! I want to be more servicable.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.  ~William Faulkner
I just thought this was an awsome visual!
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.  ~Chinese Proverb
It really is important to think of everyone and eveything that goes into making your day work together.