Charles Dickens Quotes

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I’m grateful.

Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.

You have to be really vigilant and appreciative of what you have and not get too excited about anything. But it's important to celebrate what you have and feel proud for a minute.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.

How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?

We could never have guessed We were already blessed where we are.

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

Be sensible of your wants, that you maybe sensible of your treasures.