Quotes About Gratitude

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

He wakes up and thinks, I'm alive. This simple fact fills him with a sense of accomplishment. He didn't die in his sleep.

I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.

It occurs to me, just before I pass out, that maybe I was miserable before, but things were going too well for me to notice it.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.

This paralysis is my greatest mercy.7

My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Vaak heb je toeschouwers van elders nodig om de schoonheid die ons dagelijks omringt te benadrukken: onszelf valt die 'tere, zilvergrijze toon' vaak niet eens (meer) op, omdat we hem als vanzelfsprekend beschouwen, citaat uit 'Hollands licht

It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don't have and undervaluing what you do.

What shall I do when my enemy succeeds? Aim a little higher and be grateful for the lesson.

Culture takes with one hand, but in some fortunate places it gives more with the other. To think about culture only as oppressive is ignorant and ungrateful, as well as dangerous.

There's some real utility in gratitude. It's also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment

What could I do, that I would do, to make Life a little better?" You are not dictating to yourself what "better" must be.

I would like to thank Sally Harding, my agent, and the fine people she works with at CookeMcDermid. Without Sally, this book would have never been written.

We might instead note with gratitude that a complex, sophisticated culture allows for many games and many successful players, and that a well-structured culture allows the individuals that compose it to play and to win, in many different fashions.

What's the difference between being happy and being content?", "What things get better as you age?" and "What makes life more meaningful?

What are the most valuable things everyone should know?" I wrote a list of rules, or maxims; some dead serious, some tongue-in-cheek—"Be grateful in spite of your suffering," "Do not do things that you hate," "Do not hide things in the fog," and so on.

The people from whom you want thanks might not be very proficient in offering it, to begin with, but that shouldn't stop you.

Even a man on a sinking ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat!