"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
François de La Rochefoucauld
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"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."
John Calvin
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"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."
John Calvin
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"All that we behold is full of blessings."
William Wordsworth
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"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
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"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."
Oscar Wilde
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"Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
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"Remember the wonderful blessings that come to you each day from the hands of a generous God, and forget the irritations that would distract from your happiness."
William Arthur Ward
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"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall upon the very thing we search for, without finding it."
Seneca
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"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."
Neil A. Maxwell
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"Every burden is a blessing."
Robert H. Schuller
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"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."
Joseph Addison
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"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."
Bernard Meltzer
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"It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Acts 20:35
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“Blessing is an attitude of mind in which one may see the oak tree within the acorn, and the man of god in the newborn babe.”
Eric Butterworth
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“When we think good, speak good, do good, we not only tend to pay debts of past limitations, we prepare the way for inevitable future blessings.”
Eric Butterworth
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"Prayers go up to heaven; blessings come down to earth."
Yiddish Proverb
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"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."
Socrates
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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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"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
Mark Twain
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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W. T. Purkiser
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
Eric Hoffer
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"Come what may, I have been blessed."
Lord Byron
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"The tendency to seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack is the greatest tragedy on earth. Count your blessings—not your troubles!"
Dale Carnegie
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"Blessings are not valued until they are gone."
Thomas Fuller
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"When God blesses you, He always has more than you in mind."
John Jutze
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