Chaim Potok Quotes

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.

I feel like I've been blessed. I see the world through stories.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.

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

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

I'm incredibly lucky.