Quotes About Gratitude

Whatever happens is the best thing that could happen.

Whatever you get is what you need.

How do I know I don't need what I want? I don't have it.

That's like saying, "May my will be done, not God's will," rather than realizing, deeply, that God's will is your will at every moment. It's trying to get what you want, rather than wanting what you have, which is the only way you can ever be happy.

I cannot need what I don't have, so I always have everything I need, and everyone does.

Everything happens for me, not to me.

have done. I am thankful however for what 1 have

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

She believed in the principle of enoughness. from About Alice

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.

If a woman gets one good man in her life, she's lucky. She should be happy. Asking for two good men is tempting fate.

the world appears beautiful so that the living may love being alive in it. Life has developed-and we have inherited-a sense of the beautiful to let us feel at home in the world, without further reason.

These are the folks who brought us the hydrogen bomb. Forgive me, Lord, for not being more grateful to these kind souls

True? Yes, I suppose-unfit somehow-anyway.... So I came here. There was nowhere else I could go. I was played out. You know what played out is? My youth was suddenly gone up the water-sprout, and-I met you. You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed some-body, too. I thanked God for you, because you seemed to be gentle-a cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in! But I guess I was asking, hoping-too much! Kiefaber, Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite.

Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Quien se acuerda de darle gracias al Sol porque alumbra o al agua porque se deja beber?

I prefer to think of myself as a devout Narcissist. What does that mean? If the sun is shining, I thank God. If it rains, I blame him.

This is all so tangled and so impossible, but God did the impossible tonight. He does it all the time. I'm so overcome by it that I can't formulate an elaborate prayer. I simply whisper, "Thank you.

With the practice of intentional gratitude, there is no time for regrets about the past, or worries about the future. There is only thankfulness for the here and now.

You have to make the best of the life you are given.

But chances were few and far between in their world, and mostly you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

You lived the life you were given, good or bad.

You think about how fragile life is, about how quickly it goes by, how quickly things become lost. You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain.

you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.