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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.
You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.
 Sophia Loren

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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
 Randy Alcorn
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Quotes from the same author

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
 Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
 Sophia Loren
Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.
 Sophia Loren
My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'
 Sophia Loren
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
 Sophia Loren