Being grateful is perhaps the most essential factor that contributes to your happiness. To celebrate life’s small and big miracles, we have created the following selection of inspirational blessed quotes. Enjoy reading! P.S.: Be sure to also have a look at our collection of wonderful quotes about being grateful.
If you count your blessings regularly or even daily, you know how this simple act can profoundly impact your happiness and mental well-being. By making yourself aware of how much you’ve been given in life and how blessed you truly are, you will increase your appreciativeness of life in general.
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
For this reason, gratitude can help you to become aware of all the little wonders in your life you can be thankful for. Similarly, it will help you to be content with what you have which helps you to waste your time chasing material things that may not necessarily contribute to your happiness.
Following blessed quotes celebrate the wonders of life
The more often you take yourself a couple of minutes to be appreciative of your life, the more will you begin to realize how many wonderful things in life you overlooked because you took them for granted.
Especially when the going gets tough, gratefulness can give you the hope and encouragement it takes to keep moving on. It will remind you of the joy and happiness that is still left in your life. Even more so, it will make you realize how precious your life is even though you may be struggling at the moment.
112 Blessed Quotes That Celebrate Life’s Miracles
It’s not always easy to see the blessing in your own life. When you are confronted with grim thoughts, the following inspirational blessed quotes will lift you up. The wonderful thing about the statements is that they were spoken or written by individuals who profoundly understood the value that can be found in everyday blessings.
We hope you enjoy this collection of quotes about life’s blessings.
Here’s our selection of blessed quotes:
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“The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
Seneca
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“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
Henry Fielding
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“Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
Groucho Marx
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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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“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
Alexander Pope
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“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
Camille Pissarro
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“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
Oscar Wilde
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“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
Rumi
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“There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.”
Og Mandino
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
Albert Camus
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“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.”
Thomas Goodwin
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“Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.”
Paulo Coelho
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“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
Maya Angelou
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“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
Robert A. Heinlein
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“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”
Roy T. Bennett
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“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
Rumi
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“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
A.W. Tozer
21.
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness – just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
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“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”
Anthony Trollope
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“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
Blessed quotes like this give you so much hope and strength
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“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
William Arthur Ward
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“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”
Alexandre Dumas
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“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
Henry Ward Beecher
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“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
Neal A. Maxwell
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“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, and pour out peace.”
Ezra Taft Benson
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“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.”
A.W. Tozer
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“Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness.”
Quentin Tarantino
These blessed quotes are full of hope
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“I didn’t allow other people to dictate how I should feel or act. I learned there was no shame in imperfection because history had shown being different had the power to change perspectives and eventually the world. This is when I realized that flaws had responsibility. This was the day that I learned I was truly blessed.”
Shannon L. Alder
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“The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.”
Steve Maraboli
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“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
George Eliot
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“Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.”
John Piper
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“A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It’s all a matter of how you look at it.”
Penelope Ward
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“Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord; then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
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“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.”
Nikolai Tesla
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“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
Eric Hoffer
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“Some people never find love at all, count yourself blessed if it ever happens your way”
Ellen Hopkins
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“For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.”
Nick Vujicic
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“It’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.”
E.A. Bucchianeri
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“Stop trying to change that which you cannot change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you have already received, and those that are yet to come to you, and stand in that space of gratitude, and honor.”
Oprah Winfrey
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“I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage.”
C.S. Lewis
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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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“Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.”
Marcus Aurelius
The following blessed quotes are so true
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“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings”
Plato
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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 nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course, it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”
C.S. Lewis
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“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
Thomas Paine
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“Love is a wonderful gift. It’s a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It’s incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. It is a blessing that should be counted every day. It is nourishment for the soul.”
Douglas Pagels
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“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them.”
Nicholas Sparks
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“One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..”
Joel Osteen
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“You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.”
Myles Munroe
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“Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest. In each waking day, you will find scores of blessings and opportunities for positive change. Do not let your today be stolen by the unchangeable past or the indefinite future! Today is a new day!”
Steve Maraboli
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“Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.”
Thomas S. Monson
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“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
W. T. Purkiser
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“Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises. „
Janette Oke
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“You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can’t just wish it, you can’t just hope it, you can’t just want it… you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.”
Steve Marboli
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“Maybe we just don’t recognize the blessings that come as a result of terrible things”
Amy Harmon
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“Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others… The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
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“God doesn’t bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.”
Warren Wiersbe
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“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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“Yet I also believe that when you do unto others, blessings come to you as well. So if you don’t have a friend, be a friend. If you are having a bad day, make someone else’s day. If your feelings are hurt, heal those of another.”
Nick Vujicic
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“May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“Sometimes we focus so much on what we don’t have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!”
Jeff Dixon
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“Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.”
Jeffrey R. Holland
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“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”
Louisa May Alcott
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“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”
William Arthur Ward
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“Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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“If and when you fall in love, may you be happy with her. I don’t need to wish her anything, for she’ll be happy with you. May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”
Richard Bach
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“If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.”
Joel Osteen
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“Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.”
Steve Maraboli
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“May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.”
Heber J. Grant
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“There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.”
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
George Eliot
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“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
Bram Stoker
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“Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.”
Jan Karon
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“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly.”
Kathryn Lasky
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“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”
Alexandre Dumas
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“Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.”
Elisabeth Elliot
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“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”
John Wooden
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“Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves, we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we’ve been blessed with.”
Steve Maraboli
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Count your blessings, not your problems.”
Roy T. Bennett
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“I’m telling you, people. Every day we wake up is another blessing. Follow your dreams and don’t let anyone stop you. Never say never.”
Justin Bieber
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“It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”
Steve Maraboli
Blessed quotes like this are spot on
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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, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness, you will know what His will is.”
Amy Carmichael
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“Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.”
Steve Maraboli
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“I’m blessed and I couldn’t be more grateful. Do you want to know why? Because I’m a mother, but that’s only half of it. I’m blessed because, when I need to, I can still just be a daughter. I get the feeling that there is nothing more precious than to have both of these roles, simultaneously.”
Adrianna Stepiano
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“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn’t stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one’s place in the world. To say ‘I am here.’ To say ‘I am.”
O. R. Melling
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“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”
Thomas Jefferson
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“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
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“Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.”
Shannon L. Alder
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“One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone… and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other. „
Lisa Kleypas
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“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.”
Samuel Johnson
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“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
Carlos Castaneda
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“It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
Mother Teresa
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“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”
Mark Twain
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“The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.”
Amit Ray
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“We must never allow our burdens to obscure our blessings.”
Jeffrey R. Holland
We hope that our collection of quotes has inspired you to look at life from a different and perhaps even more grateful perspective. It’s always great to have a good reminder about the blessings in our lives that may not always be so obvious to us.
You may have noticed that many of the authors highlighted the importance of focusing on the positive aspects of your life instead of repeatedly mulling over that which you are disappointed with. In doing so, you will be able to shift your attention to the wonderful and often times miraculous things in life that make you truly happy.
What was your favorite blessed quote?
We hope you enjoyed this collection of blessed quotes. Let us know in the comment section which quote was your favorite. And if you can’t get enough of wonderful quotes like this, you may also like our collection of thoughtful gratitude quotes and our quotes about being thankful.
Stay victorious!
