If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Topic: Blessing, Gratitude, Health
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Gratitude is the way to happiness.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
The tepee is much better to live in: always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move…Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
