""...One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.""

-- David Steindl-Rast

#Gratitude Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.”

Source : The Homiletic Review, April 1896.
“The best way to persuade is with your ears.”
“I did in fact take a couple of classes at my local college here in NYC. But I did it unwillingly and without enthusiasm. That is until a protest broke out in the streets around campus against rising tuition costs.”
“It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.”
“One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.”
“How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?”

Source : Didier Eribon, Michael Lucey (2004). “Insult and the Making of the Gay Self”, p.29, Duke University Press
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”

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