Quotes About Gratitude

Getting to share the ring with guys I idolized is never going to stop being surreal for me.

Every time I go home, I look around, and it feels surreal. Like, I'm not living out of my car anymore, I don't have to ask people for money.

Words fail to express how surreal and humbling it feels to be invited into the 'Star Wars' universe.

My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.

The family and friends and the people I surround myself allow me to keep my feet firmly on the floor and not get too big-headed.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

Io non è che sentissi la mancanza dei sogni. Tanto avevo i suoi di sogni su cui riflettere, se proprio mi serviva un'altra vita. E poi avevo una vicina che cantava o canticchiava tutto il giorno. Tutto sommato, potevo ritenermi fortunato.

When you lose everything,' Nathan had said, 'you've nothing left to lose. You've got two choices then: either kill yourself or start building a new life. When I started this new life, without my family, I decided the only sensible thing in it was to live for the small rewards: a job well done, a beautiful sunrise, the sound of children laughing at play, a good cup of wine. Makes it easy to deal with the harsher side of life.

My father used to say, "a day spent breathing is a good day

Bountiful was the table of your grandsire, for there is still fat at the root of my heart from the feasts he gave in my honour.

Pug turned to regard her in the warm glow. He had been married to Miranda for more than half his life now, yet he found her a constant mystery and occasionally a challenge. But at moments like this he was grateful she was close at hand.

people who took things for granted in these situations were called corpses.

by uncovering the illusions and finding the gifts they've masked, we can grow, and begin to feel more love and gratitude for our relatives. This is the true healing process.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation.

I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books. The gifts to them and the head of nursing were also meant to acknowledge that although people get paid to do their jobs, you cannot pay someone to do their job passionately and wholeheartedly. Those qualities are not for sale; they are themselves gifts that can only be given freely, and are in many, many fields.

If you're lucky, you carry a torch into that dark of Virginia Woolf's, and if you're really lucky you'll sometimes see to whom you've passed it, as I did on that day (and if you're polite, you'll remember who handed it to you).

Uncountable the number off breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

Uncountable the number of breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

she repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was only to be found in music

Solange wir das Glück suchen oder herbeisehnen, erfahren wir es nicht. Glück ist vielleicht das, was uns hinterher als solches erscheint. Wenn wir aber ganz darauf vergessen, ist es kurz zu haben. Glück widerfährt uns manchmal, wenn wir ganz wir selbst sind.

Vivre les malheurs d'avance, c'est les subir deux fois. Le moment présent était un moment de joie, il ne fallait pas l'empoisonner.