Quotes About Realising How Lucky You Are

#1. When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. You want him to become a robot.

Ayn Rand

#2. Everyone just needs to get over themselves.

Jon Stewart

#3. It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Elon Musk

#4. The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

Arjuna Ardagh

#5. It's been a long time since I've seen you, Palmer. But you're just the same, only more so.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

Claire Cameron

#7. Papa wasn't like them, with lines like cursive writing up and down their faces.

Jane Yolen

#8. One of the most positive things about America is just like what we're all doing here today. We're standing on Jensen Beach, we're watching a beautiful sunrise over the Atlantic. It's all because of men and women who were willing to make a sacrifice so that we can enjoy these freedoms.

Allen West

#9. Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

Dwight L. Moody

#10. Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.

Robert H. Schuller

#11. I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

Sugar Ray Leonard