Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Material blessings when they pay beyond the category of need are weirdly fruitful of headache.

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

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

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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

I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.