#sings

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. ↗

— Hippocrates

#blessings #consider #derive #greatest #health

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#blessings #count #enables #hardest #master

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. ↗

— Homer

#both #cup #distributes #ever #evil

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#good #i #my own #own #really

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#block #doubt #getting #stop #want

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#blessings #climate #coal #easy #fertile

Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love. ↗

— Robert Hurt

#come #count #country #democrats #freedoms

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. ↗

— Dean Inge

#enjoyed #ever #good #good government #government

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#another #back #becomes #every #every heart