Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.
I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
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