Quotes About Gratitude

Katherine Mary, w'er going to know each other very well, for many years, I hope. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to your life. Your Sergeant coming home, a good dinner, your little Mary laughing, the smell of the woods - oh, so many things, you know them yourself

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every day. —Benjamin Franklin

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.

Um cínico disse uma vez a G.K. Chesterton, o romancista e ensaísta britânico: "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois não ficará decepcionado." A réplica de Chesterton? "Abençoado seja aquele que nada espera, pois se deliciará com tudo.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.

Benditos sean los que no esperan nada, porque disfrutarán de todo».

Fidelman thanked him, in full blush. "Who are you here with?" Orazio Pinello asked. "Annamaria Oliovino." "Her?" said the sculptor. "But she's a fake.

He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.

Ageing is nothing to be ashamed of Especially when the entire race is in it together Although sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting older Because it's such a privilege to not die prematurely

Así es la vida, nunca le sacarás todo el partido a lo que te ha tocado si no lo aceptas

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations

He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.

The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness

Another not uncommon victim of persecution mania is a certain type of philanthropist, who is always doing good to people against their will, and is amazed and horrified that they display no gratitude. Our motives in doing good are seldom as pure as we imagine them to be. Love of power is insidious; it has many disguises, and is often the source of the pleasure we derive from doing what we believe to be good to other people.

Ä°lahiyatç?lar küçük ÅŸeyler için ÅŸükretmeye al??m??t?r ve bilimciler onlara bir tanr? verdikleri sürece bunun nas?l bir tanr? olduÄŸunu pek umursamazlar.

The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in. These things I still have, I remind myself — and shall have until I leave them.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we're humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God to have been so good to us. Therein lies another road to captivity. It is the road of legalism.

Blessing is defined by neither ease nor worldly possessions nor pain-free existence nor stock-market successes. Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart make life worth the bother.

We have a crippling tendency to forget what God has done for us. For a while, we're humbled. Then, if we do not guard our hearts and minds, we begin to think we must have done something right for God to have been so good to us. Therein lies another road to captivity. It is the road of legalism. Hezekiah believed he was right with God because of what he had done.

powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.