Anna Akhmatova Quotes

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

I'm going to miss Saroj Ji and I will cherish all the fond memories I have of her.

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Each day provides its own gifts.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

In prosperity remember adversity.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

I respect the people that I lost to.

I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.