Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

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.

I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

There is always something to be grateful for.

Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys.

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude. About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I'm grateful for, and there are many in my life. I'm just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I'm living right now. Everything's going great. I'm having a good time.

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

There is always a reason to be grateful.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.

What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.

I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful.

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

Everything is a blessing to me.

Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart!

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.