Quotes About Unseen Blessings

#1. My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy burden for me. But I took it on consciously, even though it was torture for me.

Orhan Pamuk

#2. The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike still more ... this foresight, well or ill used, is the source of all the wisdom or the wretchedness of mankind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. Nero: "Am I forbidden to do what all may do?"
Seneca: "From high rank high example is expected.

Seneca.

#4. Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

Marie Antoinette

#5. He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

Beverly Cleary

#6. No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.

Elbert Hubbard