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"Appreciate others so that you can be appreciated."
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"Be grateful for the blessing of the moments."
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Personal Development
"I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur."
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Personal Development
"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow."
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Personal Development
"If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles."
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Personal Development
"A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile."
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Personal Development
"Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life."
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Personal Development
"Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night."
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Personal Development
"Wealth is a small blessing, health is a great asset, happiness is an extraordinary treasure, and life is a remarkable reward."
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Personal Development
"There is always something to appreciate in people."
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"I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years."
Time
"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."
Being
"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space."
Family
"The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book."
Church
"When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody."
Attitude
"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."
People
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
Reading
"I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."
Truth
"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970."
People
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
Time
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