"So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson."

-- Alice Barrett

#Gratitude Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and in the ring. I always want to put on a great fight for the fans.”
“This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.”
“Let me tell you something you havenâ€™t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesnâ€™t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, eventsâ€”they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldnâ€™t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you donâ€™t even notice at first, and then one day itâ€™s there. You wake up and you just donâ€™t have the fire anymore.â€ He smiled...”
“The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.”
“Always carry through an attack when you have started it.”
“Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him that at every line He would give me not merely thoughts and power, but also every word, even the very rhymes.”
“I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.”
“When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.”

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