There's a great Albert Camus quote: 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ' When I first re-emerged, I was embarrassed to walk down the street. People would come up and say, 'I heard you were dead!' But I had to remind myself that a lot of the stuff I went through was pretty brutal. I'm definitely thankful that some of the rough patches are behind me.
My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.
Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.
If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
Thanks are justly due for boons unbought
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island. . . to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.