“A broad smile spread across Will’s face. “Then we have no choice but to give our blessing too. Cordelia Carstairs,” he said, “the Carstairs and the Herondales will be bonded even more closely now. If James could have chosen his wife from all the women in all the worlds that are or ever were, I would wish for no other.” Tessa laughed. “Will! You cannot compliment our new daughter only on the chance of her last name!” Will was grinning like a boy. “Wait until I tell Jem—”
“May everything that comes to me be blessed. May everything that leaves me be blessed. May there be love. May there be peace.”
“Having the ability to recognize and appreciate your blessing during difficult times in life is a blessing.”
“Our lives should be, according to our Lord s plans, quiet but steadily flowing streams of blessing, which through our prayers and intercession should reach our whole environment.”
“People often underestimate their blessings and overestimate their challenges”
“Communication is humanity’s greatest blessing, although efforts to establish it can feel like humanity’s greatest curse.”
“May all sentient beings be magnificently blessed so that our mind may follow the Dharma; May all sentient beings be magnificently blessed so that the Dharma becomes the Path; May all sentient beings be magnificently blessed so that the Path removes error; May error dawn pristine wisom.”
“Meeting him was a miracle. He was a precious gift sent from God from heaven above!”
“a rule that I had no less devastatingly laid down for myself, and it was this: that I had no right to be happy unless the people I loved - especially my children - were happy too. I have come to believe that is not true. I believe instead that we all of us have not only the right to be happy no matter what but also a kind of sacred commission to be happy - in the sense of being free to breathe and move, in the sense of being able to bless our own lives, even the sad times of our own lives, because through all our times we can learn and grow, and through all our times, if we keep our ears open, God speaks to us his saving word. Then by drawing on all those times we have had, we can sometimes even speak and live a saving word to the saving of others.”
“... but the older you get, the more you learn to appreciate the moments life gives you. Getting them certainly isn t a given, and I feel blessed to have carved out a life here where I could be happy even if it wasn t quite the happiness I envisioned, if the things I dreamed of never quite came to pass.”
“Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless.”
“Foggy road is a blessing because it is full of surprises and life is such a road! We are incredibly lucky that we all have an unknowable future!”
“To see yourself objectively from the outside is a great blessing! Sometimes to visit your true-self you must leave yourself!”
“No amount of blessings can benefit you if you don’t take the first step”
“Don t believe that the day is without good. The very fact that you are consciously here today is a blessing of itself. Every breath you breathe, step you take, day you live is the greatest gift you can ever receive. Don t let those gifts fall away unappreciated. Live with joy in every moment.”
“A warrior lives by challenge. The average man sees everything in his life as either a blessing or a curse; the warrior sees everything as a challenge.”
“There are millions of reasons to smile and ALLAH Ta ala is my favorite.”