Quotes About Gratitude

as if my own identity hardly matters because it has been subsumed by what I can only describe as a feeling of gratitude for the gift of experience.

Yet our moment is rare and extraordinary, a recognition that allows us to make life's impermanence and the scarcity of self-reflective awareness the basis for value and a foundation for gratitude.

Now, more often than not, contemplating the far future leaves me with a feeling of calm and connection, as if my own identity hardly matters because it has been subsumed by what I can only describe as a feeling of gratitude for the gift of experience

Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.' 'So am I,' de Vries said.

Those who have everything value nothing. Those who have nothing value everything. —RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL, Assessments of Philosophical Revelations

When receiving an unexpected gift, a wise man does not ask too many questions. Only the foolish person assumes that a gift is simply a gift, and that there are no implied obligations. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, Venport Holdings consolidation memo

your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

Squirrels, otters, hedgehogs, mice, Moles with fur like sable, Gathered in good spirits all, Round the festive table. Sit we down to eat and drink. Friends, before we do, let's think, Fruit of forest, field and banks, To the seasons we give thanks.

I wanted to correct her, but if I'd learned one thing by that point in my education, it was that when anybody in these cruel worlds offers a helping hand... you shut your fucking mouth and grab it.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks of everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." – Rumi

It is also important to give and receive within a team. Too often, the corporate world forces individuals to strive and show their personal strengths. However, accepting help from others and crediting them for it is not a sign of weakness. It takes a stronger person to take help than not to take help.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive." – Wayne Dyer

To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.

I have enough in this moment, and I love wanting more from a place of enough. Wanting is only exhausting when we believe we can't have what we want or that if we don't have it, we can't be happy.

That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.

Each of us is a miracle. Alas, it is a fact we too often forget.

You're just suffering from the belief that there's something missing from your life. In reality, you always have what you need.

Everyone is doing his job. No one is more valuable than another. The things in the world that we think are so terrible are actually great teachers. There's no mistake, and there's nothing lacking. We're always going to get what we need, not what we think we need. Then we come to see that what we need is not only what we have, it's what we want. Then we come to want only what is. That way we always succeed, whatever happens.

We all do emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny—just to get what we already have. And because we're doing the gymnastics, we don't see that we already have it.

The receiving is the giving. It's the most genuine thing you can give back. That's what they wanted to give you in the first place.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it—it's just easier if you do.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

I already please everyone, and I already have everyone's approval, though I don't expect them to realize it yet.