Top 1200 Being Thankful Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.

I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

What fuels my optimism is just an appreciation for life. I wake up every day thankful to be alive. I certainly have a lot to live for - not only personally, but all those people I'm fighting for, and to be with my kids, my wife Stacy, to see them grow and be a part of it. I'm certainly by no means ready to give up or cash in.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.

A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.

It does not matter what your circumstances are; the instant you begin to thank God, even though your situation has not changed, you begin to change. The key that unlocks the gates of heaven is a thankful heart. Entrance into the courts of God comes as you simply begin to praise the Lord.

I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

In my life I have had various health threats: polio, seizures, a brain aneurysm. None of these things has really changed me much, although it is hard to say for sure. These are events that are part of my life. They make me who I am. I am thankful for them. They are scary.

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

My father, he's meant so much to me. He's always on me to be thankful and humble to everyone who's helped me and helped the team be successful. There were many things that he said and preached throughout my life that are now part of my mindset. It's a big part of who I am.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

If we approach other people understanding our own value, being confident in who we are, being centered and grounded, it's actually easier for us to connect with them because we can listen more deeply and we can express ourselves more authentically without fear of being judged or not being enough.

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.

When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.

Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

So being a senior player, being a goalkeeper, being a team member, I think saving the ball is my first main priority.

It took a while for me to figure out how it all fit in, being a mother and being a woman and being a rock singer.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Gratitude, generosity and humility are inherent characteristics of one who is present. When you awaken, you will realize that everyone and everything has the same right to be here as you do. This includes every human Being, every tree Being, every flower Being, and every other kind of Being.

Playing so many important games in a prestigious competition like the Champions League, I have experience to call upon and I'm thankful for that. I hope the other players can feel more confident because of that. Of course we're facing a very tough tie; we know Juventus F.C. are the favourites, but sometimes excitement, desire, effort and bravery can overcome individual ability.

When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

I got a lot of crap for being named SZA but not being affiliated with Wu-Tang, and being a girl.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

My experience in relation to taking on the preachers of hate was saying to them it's compatible being British, being Western, being Muslim.

We've always had each other's backs in and out of competition. We support each other the most because we're the only ones that know what it's like to go through what we do, and so we can't be more thankful for each other. We're like sisters.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.