Quotes About Gratitude

The things that others have always seem better than what you have

I told you that I understood crazy," Chet said. "I was wrong. Thank you for the master class.

Don't you think a man better appreciates love when he has been forced for so long to go without?

Brother. 'You must find the most important words a man can say

You came all this way, leaving behind luxury, to eat some pancakes." "Really awesome pancakes.

I don't think I'd ever realized, until that moment, that a person could be beautiful and ugly at the same time. When you're a teenage boy, you want the beautiful people to be truly beautiful. It's hard to see otherwise, stupid as it sounds. I guess I owe her for that." "It's a lesson a lot of people never learn, Adolin.

Un hombre encuentra una sola moneda en el barro y habla de ello durante días, pero cuando le llega una herencia y es un uno por ciento menor de lo que esperaba, entonces se sentirá estafado.

You have nearly died, and so I will say something to distract you from the serious mind-numbing implications of your own mortality! I hate your shoes.

They don't see losing a third of the city as a disaster—they see saving two-thirds of it as a miracle.

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn't come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I'm learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

At the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of my life, I want to say I contributed more than I criticized.

If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

We're all grateful for people who write and speak in ways that help us remember that we're not alone.

You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. And it becomes this dangerous cycle.

AEIOUY. A = Have I been Abstinent today? (However you define that—I find it a little more challenging when it comes to things like food, work, and the computer.) E = Have I Exercised today? I = What have I done for myself today? O = What have I done for Others today? U = Am I holding on to Unexpressed emotions today? Y = Yeah! What is something good that's happened today?

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough, or what I call Wholeheartedness.

But as poet Mizuta Masahide wrote, "Barn's burnt down / now / I can see the moon.

It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. —Brother David Steindl-Rast

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.