What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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.
Embrace your life, count your blessings, and don’t complain about what you don’t have.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn't the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn't what you give in exchange for something; it's what you feel when you are blessed--blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.
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 foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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