Blessed Quotes
2095 Blessed quotes by 1370 unique authors
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our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
— Isak Dinesen
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Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive…
— James Clavell
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He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.
— Michael Lewis
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small…
— William Morris
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For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present…
— Karl Rahner
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God,…
— Amy Carmichael
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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
— C.S. Lewis
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But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings.…
— Aristotle
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let…
— Betty Smith
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Blessed are the dumbfucks.
— Christopher Moore
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Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does…
— Edith Wharton
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Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular…
— Gregory Maguire
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Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across…
— Jenny Downham
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I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed…
— Haruki Murakami
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What destruction have I been blessed by?
— A. R. Ammons
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It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility.…
— Anne Rice
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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.
— Thomas Hughes
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Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
— Groucho Marx
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But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got…
— Sarah Dessen
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got…
— C.S. Lewis
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
— James Thurber
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Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is…
— Joan Didion
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must…
— Audre Lorde
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