Quotes About Gratitude

I wouldn't want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days

oh god it's so wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to be true—and it's real.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

The Best Things In Life Are Free" The moon belongs to everyone, The best things in life are free. The stars belong to everyone, They gleam there for you and me. The flowers in spring, the robins that sing, The moonbeams that shine, they're yours, they're mine. And love can come to everyone, The best things in life are free.

The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.

If ever I was in a plane that was going down, rather than screaming, crying and railing against the inevitable, I would look out the window, watch my death speeding toward me, and fully appreciate the final experience of my life.

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Count the day won when, turning on its axis, This earth imposes no additional taxes.

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

I don't like my shoes,' said Rose. 'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.' 'You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.' How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once?

The ugly sister of gratitude is revenge, an emotion equally concerned with the squaring of accounts, but in a negative sense.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

remember that a gift is never deserved; if it were deserved it would be a payment. Do we wish to pay our family and friends? Of course not—so just give happily, and be happy when you too receive a gift you do not deserve.

At the peak of human gnosis, man's knowledge of God may appear associated with the love of God. An early Sufi is said to have re- marked that he loved God, because God had bestowed upon him, among other favors, his knowledge of Him.

La generosidad es un regalo que uno se hace a sí mismo. No hay nada mejor para sentirse bien.

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?