Quotes About Gratitude

Almighty God, I rely on You to lead me through every challenge and battle in my life. Help me to never operate out of fear in the face of what seems like impossible circumstances. Just as You have helped me in the past, I know You will continue to help me in the future. I praise You for the great things You will do, and thank You that Your presence is always with me.

Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me.

Sometimes I stand in the bathtub, elbows resting on the sill, and stare at passing cars, just thinking how lucky I am. I love being single. It's almost like being rich. I

In the meantime, I have work of my own to do and a life that feels richer for his having been a part of it.

I felt a jolt of pure joy. It was one of those occasions when I suddenly realized how happy I was. Life was good. I was female, single, with money in my pocket and enough gas to get home. I had nobody to answer to and no ties to speak of. I was healthy, physically fit, filled with energy.

Be like this cup. Hold much, give much, and become rich with what is within you.

Era una suerte que la muerte no le hubiese arrebatado la sabiduría del anciano.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see…we listen, but never hear…we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity, and laughter to come alive. —Erma Bombeck

Sitting, years later, watching the last of the ice finally melting on our lake one morning in early April and hearing my husband and children walking through the woods behind me. They were laughing and talking, and I touched for a moment the deepest joy, the kind of joy that was, and still is, entirely enough to fill up my heart for this lifetime.

Each of us must find a way to love the world. You have found yours.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even, and the impassive way I'd treated them

My own largeness has been to bless yours.

What else do you love, Lily?" No one had ever asked me this before. What did I love?

Later, I lay awake listening to him sleep, the soft clouds of his breath filling the room. I couldn't close my eyes for happiness. It sprouted in me like a bright green shoot.

handed me a drying towel. "You

After my first winter in the North, I had an entirely new appreciation for heat.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

If rewards are immoderate, there will be expenditure that does not result in gratitude; if punishments are immoderate, there will be slaughter that does not result in awe.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.