Quotes About Gratitude

Regret—I am all done with you. All my energy is exactly where it should be—focused on my family and friends and the beauty of each new day. I will always be grateful for the bounty in my life, and as time marches on, I will move forward with courage and exhilaration.

I'd like to thank all those who made this award possible–especially Jack Warner.

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

Everyone needed a reminder to simply look at things and enjoy them, without labeling them.

She appreciated life, it seemed, appreciated being alive, as if it were some extra gift she hadn't ever expected to receive, as if, perhaps, she wasn't quite worthy of the magnitude of it; and because she appreciated life, he began to do so, too.

She runs her hands over her hipbones and her ribs, stark even under her nightgown, and she thinks about how crazy she was not to appreciate it. How stupid she was all her life not to eat the French Fries and vanilla Cokes. As if her slimness and beauty were the most valuable things she could ever own.

The presence of a single bird can change everything for one who appreciates them.

Me ha alegrado saber que por lo menos tienen una lata de nescafé. Siempre que una persona tiene una lata de nescafé me doy cuenta de que no está en la última miseria; todavía puede resistir un poco.

No sé hablar de la felicidad pero eso no quiere decir que no la haya tenido.

Temía sobre todo la forma más sutil de la gratitud que se vuelve cariño canino.

Con tan poca cosa puede un hombre ser feliz», pensó. «Ni siquiera un beso. Con tan poco. La taza de té preparada con su mínima liturgia, un insecto dormido sobre un libro, un perfume viejo. Sí, casi la nada…»

Receava, particularmente, a forma mais sutil da gratidão, que se torna carinho canino; não queria que a liberdade, a única roupa que caía bem na Maga, se perdesse numa feminilidade diligente.

I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.

We have so much to be thankful for when we remember our reasons for gratitude—the blessings we may take for granted, the blessings we would miss bitterly if they vanished.

We ask Your help in remembering to practice an attitude of gratitude today and every day. —suzanne c. cole

Magical things happen every day, if we allow it. Think of daylight, of the stars at night, a flower. A dandelion is a miracle. PAMELA TRAVERS (1899–1996)

WELCOMING ANGELS In the arduous simplicity of this moment I open my heart, mind, and soul to stillness. In the deeper quiet I sense the greater Life that is my life. I do not live only; I am lived. I do not breathe only; I am breathed. I am not only the one I appear to be but also the One who appears as me. —rabbi rami m. shapiro

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I'm from the Dominican Republic. They're the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.

Ella nunca hablaba de lo que eran; sólo decía, ¡Man, me alegro tanto de haberte conocido! Y él contestaba, Y yo de ser quien soy conociéndote.

no se puede lamentar la vida que no se vivió

Without the Internet I would have no fans and I wouldn't be in this business. I owe everything to the Internet and my fans.