Quotes About Blessing

I got lucky with my parents. They were unfailingly loving and supportive, which gave me confidence about my place in the world.

It's a blessing that I have my family in my life and they were supportive, but there were times when I needed to find an outlet for me to understand my people and my own journey, and I found that through my chosen family, which was the ballroom community.

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.

There's a belief that you're supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don't see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.

I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.

I've been really lucky over the years with my health. To me, one major surgery at 27 years old isn't so bad considering my line of work.

I was something of a surprise to my parents. My mum, Margaret, was 42 when she had me and had been told she couldn't have children. So when she went to the doctors, they thought she had an ovarian cyst. And it was me!

My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.

I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel." (p. 343)

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Everything was sacred when nothing was taken for granted, she thinks ruefully.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

In every disaster, in every blessing, ask, Why me?       There's a reason, of course, there's an answer.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.

Sometimes the gods give you a break.

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." THE TALMUD