Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year_
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Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.
The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( __eeping up with the Joneses_ )
Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.
In India, we have a saying: 'Always look down, never look up," he said. "When you are trying to determine where you stand in life, don't look upward at the rich people, the people with everything. Look downward at the people who have nothing, those begging on the street, those living in the slums. There's no end to looking up and feeling badly. And if you try to spit upward it only falls down upon your own face. Only by looking down do you understand your dharma.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
It's all a series of serendipities with no beginnings and no ends. Such infinitesimal possibilities Through which love transcends.
I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it.
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.
You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.