Quotes About Gratitude

Isavasyamidam Sarvam: every content of the universe is throbbing with the Life of the Lord. Smile with the flowers and the green grass. Smile with the shrubs, ferns and twigs. Develop friendship with all neighbours, dogs, cats, cows, human beings, trees, in fact, with all nature's creations. You will have a perfect and rich life.

If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life, and I had to start again, with just my children and my wife. I'd thank my lucky stars to be living here today, cuz the flag still stands for freedom, and you can't take that away.

Go for a walk outdoors. Reconnect with the feeling of the wind blowing through your hair. Listen to the birds that live in a tree in your yard. Watch the sunset. Take time to smell the flowers that bloom in the park during the summer. The natural world is just as natural as it ever was, except there's less of it than there was twenty-five years ago - and most of us don't make a point of enjoying it often enough.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"

How many things are there which I do not want.

He is richest who is content with the least.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

For each of them, men, is able, going into each of the cities, to persuade the young-who can associate with whomever of their own citizens they wish to for free-they persuade these young men to leave off their associations with the latter, and to associate with themselves instead, and to give them money and acknowledge gratitude besides.

He who is not content with what he has will not be content with what he would like to have.

He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he would like to have.

Critón, le debemos un gallo a Asclepio. ¿Te acordarás de pagar la deuda?

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

life is inherently sacred and must be lived with sacred intensity and purpose

What a beautiful and what a healing mystery it is that from contemplating, continually and fearlessly, the truth of change and impermanence, we come slowly to find ourselves face to face, in gratitude and joy, with the truth of the changeless, with the truth of the deathless, unending nature of mind!

Always when you are with a dying person, dwell on what they have accomplished and done well. Help them to feel as constructive and as happy as possible about their lives. Concentrate on their virtues and not their failings.

piece of advice from Patrul Rinpoche: Remember the example of an old cow, She's content to sleep in a barn. You have to eat, sleep, and shit— That's unavoidable— Beyond that is none of your business.

Good at the End is the way in which we bring our meditation to a close by dedicating all its merit, and praying with real fervor:

Many slaveholders boast of the love of their slaves. How would it freeze the blood of some of them to know what kind of love rankles in the bosoms of slaves for them! Witness the attempt to poison Mrs. Calhoun, and hundreds of similar cases. Most 'surprising ' to every body, because committed by slaves supposed to be so grateful for their chains.

Those who know that they have enough are wealthy.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.