#les

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#blessings

I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well-administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#blessings

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist! ↗

— Russell T. Davies

#the-end-of-time #blessings

Sometimes not getting what you want is God's greatest blessing. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#god #prayer #experience

It's all too much. ↗

— George Harrison

#trial #trials

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#potential

I will only add, God bless you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#blessings #darcy #jane-austen #mr-darcy #prejudice

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#rules #rules

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#conformity #future #history #mainstream #new-orleans

I play by the rules even when there aren’t any. ↗

— Stacy Kramer

#obedient #rules #obedience