Sentence examples for count one's blessings from inspiring English sources

Ed Grylls graced us, the couple of times when he could be bothered to tear himself from his Fijian seven-star luxpad – don't worry lawyers, I've got away with this before – with shouty warnings about scorpions and more silent warnings about the inability to count one's blessings and money.

Even a little bit helps: Taking time to count one's blessings just once per week was shown to increase positive emotions, optimism and wellbeing.

Melodrama is a secular version of counting one's blessings, and it's easy to see how Lively's own talents, with her proud tone of deserved good fortune, could be employed in the tragic mode of a bold person getting her comeuppance.

Also, ancient religious practices, such as praying, counting one's blessings and finding oneness with God contribute to sense of meaning and positive emotional experience 116, 118, 119.

When Matthew McConaughey told 43 million Oscar viewers that "gratitude reciprocates," it reinforced the lesson that counting one's blessings increases them.

And not in a shallow "Oh, I should count my blessings" sort of way--although counting one's blessings is a tried-and-true way to get a grip when the going gets rough.

"I count my blessings, I don't count my mishaps".

I count my blessings – I have many.

Let's count our blessings.

On Count Your Blessings, about how the narrator "never could escape my one mistake", he sings "over the silence" over and over to hypnotic, heartbreaking effect.

I count my blessings that none of my children or grandchildren tried to chomp on one of them.