Cecelia Ahern Quotes

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them through a daily problem or struggle or even just giving encouraging words, period. I feel like it's very powerful. I thank God for my gift.

If my life and music brings a smile or makes a difference in any individual's life, then there is nothing beyond for me as a god's gift.

It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.

I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.

How many people you bless is how you measure success

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

As a person, you want to feel like you're giving back. That's something I've always enjoyed doing.

All you have is a gift a to give.

I remember my first lesson on the pilgrimage was the lesson of receiving. I had been on the giving side for many years and I needed to learn to accept as gracefully as I had been able to give, in order to give the other fellow the joy and blessing of giving. It's so beautiful when you live to give. To me it's the only way to live because as you give you receive spiritual blessings.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.