"I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when."

-- Philip Gulley

#Gratitude Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.”
“It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.”
“When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.”
“Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.”
“Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.”

Source : Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.36, tredition
“I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.”
“The idea of happiness for me is being in tune with all around me, at one with all that is. Awareness of our interconnectedness. Harmony.”

Source : Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com
“I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.”

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