Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

The older I get, the more I appreciate what came before.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

I assume as a child Jesus had to learn how to do carpentry, learn Torah, learn all the things a human child had to learn. If He was human in all ways except that He did not sin, this must have been the case.

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

I often stop when I'm doing something, in the middle of rehearsals or some other job, and I try to take a minute to think "Okay, this might be as good as it gets, so drink it in, appreciate it now". So far, I've been lucky because another job has always come along to equal the last.

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.

When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment.