If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are "no account," go away from home, and then you will *have* to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them - if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
- Mark Twain
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
- Shmuel Y Agnon
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
- Shmuel Y Agnon
disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.
- Yusuf Al Qaradawi
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
- Paulo Coelho
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life.
- Paulo Coelho
Joy is a blessing but it often it is a conquest
- Paulo Coelho
If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing to the world though, as most of us write too much now,' said Mrs. Jo...
- Louisa May Alcott
Love is a rare gift. It comes in many packages and forms, each one unique...each one a blessing.
- R G Alexander
Accept the children the way we accept treeswith gratitude, because they are a blessingbut do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
- Isabel Allende
Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That's all you need to know in this life...just the certainty that God's got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning's a sin, it's pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I'm fine.
- Dorothy Allison
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas B Macaulay
It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become.
But at least I knew who I was.
- Keri Arthur
It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
- Armand Assante
To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
- John James Audubon
Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.
- Steve Maraboli
What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave!
- Jane Austen
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
- Jane Austen
It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I
know my age who has perfect hearing."
"Most would call that a blessing."
She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.
- Julia Quinn
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.
- Richard Bach
One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
CHASUBLE
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
MISS PRISM
This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
- Oscar Wilde
I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.
- Glenn Beck
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
- Desmond Tutu
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
- Candice Bergen
Respect toward others can't be imposed.
It's a blessing...or learning the hard way.
- Toba Beta
If you withhold a blessing, it will be given through others.
- Toba Beta
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
- Andrew Jackson
It's a blessing to be a part of such great shows that they're so recognizable.
- David Boreanaz
Born to be a blessing!
- Kyle D Pruett
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hidding the truth. You have a God-given knack for commiting a terrible sin. It's your calling. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I
asked.
"It only works on wild animals."
"So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth
reasoned.
"Hey!" I protested.
"Kidding," she said. "Come on. Let's get out of
this filthy truck.
- Rick Riordan
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Now may this little Book a blessing be
To those that love this little Book, and me:
And may its Buyer have no cause to say,
His money is but lost, or thrown away.
- John Bunyan
Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Born to be a blessing!
- David D Burns
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
- Alex Campbell
I wouldered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.
It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.
Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
- Jacqueline Carey
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
- Carlos Castaneda
As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.
- Julian Castro
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
- Roberto Cavalli
He had a face like a blessing.
- Miguel De Cervantes
What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.
- Elizabeth George
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
- Merle Shain
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
- Kitty Oneill Collins
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
- Charles Caleb Colton
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are a lot of bad things out there. Things the Hounds of Heaven were
created to destroy." He trailed his finger down the side of my face. "I can't be the hero you want
me to be--at least not in that way. But you can, Grace. You don't have to become one of the dark
ones. You can fight it. You can turn this curse into a blessing. You can become the hero. You
can become truly divine.
- Bree Despain
High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
- Zac Efron
No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growingit's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.
- George Eliot
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
- Jerome K Jerome
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
- Elisabeth Elliot
It is oftentimes a blessing to not know our limitations.
It's the only way to accomplish the impossible.
- Richard Paul Evans
Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
- Faith Evans
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
- William Falconer
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
- Henry Fielding
The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.
- Darren Flutie
So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.
- George R R Martin
It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder.
"What's a shame?" Duncan asked.
"That I didn't capture her first."
Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.
- Julie Garwood
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
I have got a blessing,
A message from God above,
And as I unwrapped it,
I realized that it was Love
- Michelle Geaney
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
- Stephen Mitchell
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.
- Baltasar Gracian
The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
- Jessica Hahn
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
- T F Hodge
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
- John Hope
Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
- Kate Hudson
When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.
- Belinda Jeffrey
In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
- Shawn Johnson
As a concierge, I mainly get to deal with guests on the higher end of the social scale. This is both a blessing, and a curse. That curse, specifically, is shit.
- Jarod Kintz
Lord, make me a blessing to someone today
- Jan Karon
Every burden is a blessing.
- Walt Kelly
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?
- Walter Kirn
My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide.
- Mia Kirshner
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
- Taylor Kitsch
There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a free country like the United States, with the unrestricted right to travel, a vast geographical territory to spread out into, and a national tradition of picking up and moving whenever life became intolerable, the automobile came as a blessing.
- James Howard Kunstler
Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
- Bernard Lagat
I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.
- Jonny Lang
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine
Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.
- Jillian Lauren
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
- Robert E Lee
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
- Latoya London
But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.
- Ludacris
Truth is in the guidance of the Coven. Is it a curse or a blessing?
- Amy Lunderman
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas Macaulay
He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing.
- Lao Tzu
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
- Taryn Manning
It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.
- Teena Marie
You never know where a blessing can come from.
- Teena Marie
I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.
- Teena Marie
My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.
- Catherine Marshall
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar--the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.
- Yann Martel
I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
- Paul Wolfowitz
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'
- John Mayer
This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.
- Brandy Norwood
A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone
-- Angela's Ashes.
- Frank Mccourt
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
- Colleen Mccullough
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
- David O Mckay
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding;
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
- Anthony De Mello
I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.
- Sienna Miller
To be honest, I consider my very sordid past a blessing; if only because it made my wonderful present - and my bright future - possible!
- Karen E Quinones Miller
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
- Ricardo Montalban
I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
- Alonzo Mourning
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
- Flannery O Connor
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
- Flannery O Connor
If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.
- Joel Osteen
I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Joel Osteen
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
- Joel Osteen
...brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives and development. The expectations that run too high: being the bridge between adults and children, one foot in either place and the accompanying hollow lonely feeling of being nowhere.
- Whitney Otto
The end of my journey began long before you were born. After three years as your teacher, Heaven granted me one day as your fatherand what a gift,
what a blessing and honor, the day has been.
- D Byron Patterson
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
- Prince
It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither.
- Philip Pullman
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Usher Raymond
Don't ask for any advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God.
--- Hadassah
- Francine Rivers
With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
- Doris Roberts
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.
- Smokey Robinson
You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.
- Marilynne Robinson
She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere.
- Marilynne Robinson
When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
- Michelle D Rosado
...one or both of those babies could be president one day. Or they could discover the cure for a terrible disease, or one could be a famous musician or even a preacher.' I stopped and considered for a minute, wondering what would impress her more than that. 'Or just be fine and decent men or women, or man and woman, who would be a blessing to you in your old age. There's a purpose for every soul that comes into this world..
- Ann B Ross
It's really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.
- Kaira Rouda
I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.
- Kelly Rowland
We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
- Gary R Ryan
The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--
- Oliver Sacks
Is yours an honest lament?... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.
- R A Salvatore
There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.
- Ryne Sandberg
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.
- Ryan Sheckler
Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.
- Bertrice Small
It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something, a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and that's why they're here..
- Danielle Steel
To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
- Leah Stewart
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
- Bram Stoker
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.
- David Talbot
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
- Todd Tiahrt
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
- Hideki Tojo
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
- William Arthur Ward
It's all right Vishous" she said "It's going to be all right."
"I do not crave this." But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.
"I know. And I love you, too."
" You are a blessing beyond measure," He pronounced in the Old Language.
And then he bowed to her and turned away.
-Marissa and Vishous
- J R Ward
Maybe it was a blessing he never loved her.
- Rita Webb
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
- Simon Wiesenthal
If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
- Michael Winslow
I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.
- Joseph B Wirthlin
Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.
- Gwenn Wright
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
- Andrew Young
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
- Slavoj Zizek
- Mark Twain
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
- Shmuel Y Agnon
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
- Shmuel Y Agnon
disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.
- Yusuf Al Qaradawi
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
- Paulo Coelho
Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing; but it becomes a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of life.
- Paulo Coelho
Joy is a blessing but it often it is a conquest
- Paulo Coelho
If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing to the world though, as most of us write too much now,' said Mrs. Jo...
- Louisa May Alcott
Love is a rare gift. It comes in many packages and forms, each one unique...each one a blessing.
- R G Alexander
Accept the children the way we accept treeswith gratitude, because they are a blessingbut do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
- Isabel Allende
Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That's all you need to know in this life...just the certainty that God's got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning's a sin, it's pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I'm fine.
- Dorothy Allison
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas B Macaulay
It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become.
But at least I knew who I was.
- Keri Arthur
It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
- Armand Assante
To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
- John James Audubon
Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.
- Steve Maraboli
What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave!
- Jane Austen
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
- Jane Austen
It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I
know my age who has perfect hearing."
"Most would call that a blessing."
She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.
- Julia Quinn
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.
- Richard Bach
One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
CHASUBLE
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
MISS PRISM
This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
- Oscar Wilde
I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.
- Glenn Beck
It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
- Desmond Tutu
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
- Candice Bergen
Respect toward others can't be imposed.
It's a blessing...or learning the hard way.
- Toba Beta
If you withhold a blessing, it will be given through others.
- Toba Beta
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
- Andrew Jackson
It's a blessing to be a part of such great shows that they're so recognizable.
- David Boreanaz
Born to be a blessing!
- Kyle D Pruett
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hidding the truth. You have a God-given knack for commiting a terrible sin. It's your calling. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I
asked.
"It only works on wild animals."
"So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth
reasoned.
"Hey!" I protested.
"Kidding," she said. "Come on. Let's get out of
this filthy truck.
- Rick Riordan
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Now may this little Book a blessing be
To those that love this little Book, and me:
And may its Buyer have no cause to say,
His money is but lost, or thrown away.
- John Bunyan
Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Born to be a blessing!
- David D Burns
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
- Alex Campbell
I wouldered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love.
It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss.
Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.
- Jacqueline Carey
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
- Carlos Castaneda
As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.
- Julian Castro
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
- Roberto Cavalli
He had a face like a blessing.
- Miguel De Cervantes
What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.
- Elizabeth George
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
- Merle Shain
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
- Kitty Oneill Collins
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
- Charles Caleb Colton
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are a lot of bad things out there. Things the Hounds of Heaven were
created to destroy." He trailed his finger down the side of my face. "I can't be the hero you want
me to be--at least not in that way. But you can, Grace. You don't have to become one of the dark
ones. You can fight it. You can turn this curse into a blessing. You can become the hero. You
can become truly divine.
- Bree Despain
High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
- Zac Efron
No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growingit's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.
- George Eliot
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
- Jerome K Jerome
Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
- Elisabeth Elliot
It is oftentimes a blessing to not know our limitations.
It's the only way to accomplish the impossible.
- Richard Paul Evans
Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
- Faith Evans
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
- William Falconer
I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
- Henry Fielding
The opportunity to go up to Canada and play was just a blessing for me and my family.
- Darren Flutie
So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.
- George R R Martin
It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder.
"What's a shame?" Duncan asked.
"That I didn't capture her first."
Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you.
- Julie Garwood
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
I have got a blessing,
A message from God above,
And as I unwrapped it,
I realized that it was Love
- Michelle Geaney
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
- Stephen Mitchell
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.
- Baltasar Gracian
The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
- Jessica Hahn
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
- T F Hodge
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
- John Hope
Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
- Kate Hudson
When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.
- Belinda Jeffrey
In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued.
- Shawn Johnson
As a concierge, I mainly get to deal with guests on the higher end of the social scale. This is both a blessing, and a curse. That curse, specifically, is shit.
- Jarod Kintz
Lord, make me a blessing to someone today
- Jan Karon
Every burden is a blessing.
- Walt Kelly
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?
- Walter Kirn
My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide.
- Mia Kirshner
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
- Taylor Kitsch
There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a free country like the United States, with the unrestricted right to travel, a vast geographical territory to spread out into, and a national tradition of picking up and moving whenever life became intolerable, the automobile came as a blessing.
- James Howard Kunstler
Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
- Bernard Lagat
I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.
- Jonny Lang
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine
Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.
- Jillian Lauren
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
- Robert E Lee
I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
- Latoya London
But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.
- Ludacris
Truth is in the guidance of the Coven. Is it a curse or a blessing?
- Amy Lunderman
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
- Thomas Macaulay
He who (tries to) govern a state by his wisdom is a scourge to it; while he who does not (try to) do so is a blessing.
- Lao Tzu
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
- Taryn Manning
It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.
- Teena Marie
You never know where a blessing can come from.
- Teena Marie
I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.
- Teena Marie
My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.
- Catherine Marshall
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar--the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.
- Yann Martel
I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa.
- Paul Wolfowitz
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'
- John Mayer
This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.
- Brandy Norwood
A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone
-- Angela's Ashes.
- Frank Mccourt
What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
- Colleen Mccullough
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
- David O Mckay
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding;
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
- Anthony De Mello
I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.
- Sienna Miller
To be honest, I consider my very sordid past a blessing; if only because it made my wonderful present - and my bright future - possible!
- Karen E Quinones Miller
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
- Ricardo Montalban
I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
- Alonzo Mourning
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
- Flannery O Connor
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
- Flannery O Connor
If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.
- Joel Osteen
I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Joel Osteen
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
- Joel Osteen
...brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives and development. The expectations that run too high: being the bridge between adults and children, one foot in either place and the accompanying hollow lonely feeling of being nowhere.
- Whitney Otto
The end of my journey began long before you were born. After three years as your teacher, Heaven granted me one day as your fatherand what a gift,
what a blessing and honor, the day has been.
- D Byron Patterson
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
- Prince
It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither.
- Philip Pullman
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
- Usher Raymond
Don't ask for any advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God.
--- Hadassah
- Francine Rivers
With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
- Doris Roberts
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.
- Smokey Robinson
You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.
- Marilynne Robinson
She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere.
- Marilynne Robinson
When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
- Michelle D Rosado
...one or both of those babies could be president one day. Or they could discover the cure for a terrible disease, or one could be a famous musician or even a preacher.' I stopped and considered for a minute, wondering what would impress her more than that. 'Or just be fine and decent men or women, or man and woman, who would be a blessing to you in your old age. There's a purpose for every soul that comes into this world..
- Ann B Ross
It's really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.
- Kaira Rouda
I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.
- Kelly Rowland
We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
- Gary R Ryan
The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--
- Oliver Sacks
Is yours an honest lament?... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.
- R A Salvatore
There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.
- Ryne Sandberg
My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.
- Ryan Sheckler
Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.
- Bertrice Small
It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something, a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and that's why they're here..
- Danielle Steel
To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
- Leah Stewart
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
- Bram Stoker
When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.
- David Talbot
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
- Todd Tiahrt
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
- Hideki Tojo
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
- William Arthur Ward
It's all right Vishous" she said "It's going to be all right."
"I do not crave this." But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.
"I know. And I love you, too."
" You are a blessing beyond measure," He pronounced in the Old Language.
And then he bowed to her and turned away.
-Marissa and Vishous
- J R Ward
Maybe it was a blessing he never loved her.
- Rita Webb
Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
- Simon Wiesenthal
If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
- Michael Winslow
I know why there must be opposition in all things. Adversity, if handled correctly, can be a blessing in our lives. We can learn to love it.
- Joseph B Wirthlin
Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.
- Gwenn Wright
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
- Andrew Young
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
- Slavoj Zizek
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