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61 " Gratitude goes beyond saying ‘thank you’. Feelings complete the blessing "
― Mensah Oteh
62 " Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise. "
― Gina Greenlee , Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons From Solo Moments in New York
63 " Before passing through the gates of a town I've never visited, I take a minute to salute its saints - the dead and the living, the known and the hidden. Never in my life have I arrived at a new place without getting the blessing of its saints first. It makes no difference to me whether that place belongs to Muslims, Christians, or Jews. I believe that the saints are beyond such trivial nominal distinctions. A saint belongs to all humanity. "
― Elif Shafak , The Forty Rules of Love
64 " Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health. "
65 " Our toil is sweet with thankfulness Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon. "
66 " May the blessing of light be on you light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it and also a friend. "
67 " I know not by what methods rare But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own. "
68 " The inevitableness the idealism and the blessing of war as an indispensable and stimulating law of development must be repeatedly emphasized. "
69 " Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. "
70 " Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new-made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion. "
― Jane Austen , Persuasion
71 " It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. "
72 " The divine light which you carry within your soul is inherited from God because you are His daughter. Part of the light which makes you so magnificent is the blessing of womanhood. "
73 " If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us. "