Quotes About Gratitude

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.

My past was so amazing. It's that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.

I personally don't resent having my children.

I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.

You can't want an amazing life and then resent it when it happens to you. Destiny has very little to do with what you think and what you want to do and even what you might like.

I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.

I just don't harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone - I'm too busy.

I have to reserve special thanks to the United fans - whose support has been a very special part of my time in Manchester.

The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.

Words cannot express how grateful I am to live in a state where its residents look after one another, respect one another, and offer help when someone is in need.

There was a time when I'd resigned myself to never having my own family, so to fall pregnant with Belle was overwhelming.

I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to buy my brother and me chocolate because we were living in Serbia at the time, and there were sanctions. If I catch myself complaining about going to a red carpet event, I say, 'Shut up.'

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.

My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Now, thanks to weightlifting, our life in Zamboanga changed. I was able to buy land for my sibling and for my gym. I was able to help my family and kids who grew up without a home.

Hearing that people read my books when they were sick, or that the books helped them find an escape when they were having a hard time... stuff like that makes all the hard work pay off.

I didn't want to be one of those people who was resentful. The moment you start saying to people that their lives must be miserable because they're sick, you give their sickness value over them.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

I am from a middle-class family, and everything I have achieved in life I have only appreciated. I have never gone overboard because I have seen the other side of life. When you have seen the other side of life, you appreciate what you have.

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.