Top 100 Blessing Curse Quotes
#1. Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.
Paulo Coelho
#2. The war seemed a curse. But now it's a blessing, because it brought you to me.
Paulo Coelho
#3. What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
Criss Jami
#4. No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Plato
#5. It was the year you learned that shooting stars were either a blessing or a curse, depending on what you wanted to believe.
Lang Leav
#6. Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.
Steve Southerland
#7. Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
Elie Wiesel
#8. The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.
Doug Phillips
#9. Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse.
Seth Adam Smith
#10. Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.
Alexandra Cousteau
#11. Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
William Arthur Ward
#12. Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#13. I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.
Robert Sheckley
#14. I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business.
Anthony Liccione
#15. She's still taking on water. A dessert blessing, an ocean curse
John Green
#16. In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.
Faye Kellerman
#17. It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we were hoping to sell 80,000. And it's still selling. In some ways, you'll always be defined by that.
Jamie Cullum
#18. We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
Peter Greenaway
#19. It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.
David Jones
#20. For some, memories are a blessing. They give one something to look at and cherish in dark times. For some, memories are a curse. They give one pain, guilt, and sorrow. But for all, memories make up who we are now.
Taylor Chackowsky
#21. It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither.
Philip Pullman
#22. I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life.
Olof Arnalds
#23. Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Mark Twain
#24. There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.
Wes Fesler
#25. If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
Pat Benatar
#26. It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.
James Sharp
#27. A desert blessing, an ocean curse.
John Green
#28. I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.
Lynsey Addario
#29. Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.
Daniel Wallace
#30. All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?
Max Lucado
#31. Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.
Rebecca Johns
#32. And then
with the curse, or, in this case, blessing, of the unpopular, the unathletic, the overweight, the strange
they vanished like shadows into the spring night.
Francesca Lia Block
#33. Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To "never avenge yourselves" (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God's blessing also on their lives.
Greg Gordon
#34. we have something between us, him and me. the the truth? everybody has it. that's our curse and our blessing. that's our trial and our error and our it.
John Green
#35. Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.
Tim Muehlhoff
#36. I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
Benicio Del Toro
#37. Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse
Ben Harper
#38. What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.
Henri Nouwen
#39. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil ... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.
Moses
#40. Story was a blessing and a curse. A reason to stay and a reason to leave.
J.A. Huss
#41. But people normally marry, and then they want that locked in time, so they think they're not going to change. We're going to change. Everybody's going to change. So accepting that changes are part of our lives makes marriage a blessing and not a curse, because love is stronger than anything else.
Paulo Coelho
#42. No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.
Isaac Watts
#43. It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.
Jonathan Sacks
#45. But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
- Charlie
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#46. As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.
Kevin Powers
#47. It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.
George Washington
#48. The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing.
Leonard Jacobson
#49. I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'
Ariel Dorfman
#50. It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead
Kirsten Beyer
#51. I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
Andrew Jackson
#52. Well, I've never been a morning person either. Perhaps that is true. But the question is this: Has that habit of personality been a blessing or a curse to you?
Tedd Tripp
#53. You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#54. Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Albrecht Durer
#55. To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
Leah Stewart
#56. In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.
Randy Alcorn
#57. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.
Elias Koteas
#58. A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. Truth is in the guidance of the Coven. Is it a curse or a blessing?
Amy Lunderman
#60. Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing.
Peter Damian
#61. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.
Richard Lamm
#62. Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.
Arnold Bennett
#63. If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
Michael Winslow
#64. I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.
Sienna Miller
#65. I did have regrets these past six months," he told me quietly. "I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you ...
Karen Chance
#66. Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.
William J.H. Boetcker
#67. It's a blessing. It's a curse. It's what you get for saying hello to people. At some point, a good-bye is coming, too. Not just to all the people you love and who love you back, but to the world as well.
Eugene O'Kelly
#68. I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for ... the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#69. It's a curse, really," Lady Danbury said. "I'm the only person I
know my age who has perfect hearing."
"Most would call that a blessing."
She snorted. "Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.
Julia Quinn
#70. It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.
Erin Morgenstern
#72. Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
Tom Robbins
#73. Documentary filmmaking has all the challenges and hardships of narrative filmmaking without any of the infrastructure or support. That's both a blessing and a curse.
Brian Lindstrom
#74. A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That's the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.
Ryan Lilly
#75. Every curse has a blessing and every blessing has a curse. When you stand face to face with your destiny, will you be able to tell one from the other?
J.K. Ensley
#76. May the Mother curse him and all gods below, and may Night's Daughters hunt him down into the ground! And on the hand that sheds his blood let there be a blessing.
Mary Renault
#77. If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.
Sarah Paulson
#78. 'The Bank Job' was great fun to work on. Roger Donaldson is a top director, and working on HD was a new experience. It picks up every detail, which is a blessing and a curse if you think about it.
Colin Salmon
#79. Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!
Philip Massinger
#80. Losing something might be a blessing; gaining something might be a curse!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.
Dallas Willard
#82. I don't think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they've watched me grow up. But that's a blessing and a curse.
Miley Cyrus
#83. No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#84. The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
Carlos Castaneda
#85. Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.
Michael E. Gerber
#86. He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough.
Glen Duncan
#87. Ignorance is a blessing as much as it is a curse. You can't crave what you don't know exists. The
Kandi Steiner
#88. I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.
Lady Gaga
#89. We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
Gary R. Ryan
#90. I had good intentions but it turned out, what I thought was a blessing had been nothing but a curse. So for now, blame it on the stealer.
A. Mani
#91. The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.
Peter Schjeldahl
#92. Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.
John Ridley
#93. But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#94. It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.
The Mighty Hannibal
#95. Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.
Glenn Danzig
#96. I believe in blessings," he replied, against my temple, "I believe that for every curse, there is a blessing.
Anne Fortier
#97. I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.
Glenn Beck
#98. Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.
T.D. Jakes
#99. If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
John Hope
#100. I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.
Rochelle Aytes
