Quotes About Gratitude

You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere else, because there's no place but here to find it. You don't have to do something else, because there's nothing more to it. You don't have to get something else, because everything you already have is enough. You just have to be happy. ...

You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.

The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing

Each time I say, Thank you, I'm telling him he's my sun, moon, and stars. And each time Barrons replies, Always. Mac, I know what it means. His "always" is a pledge of love, a promise eternal, and a guarantee that while we may never live happily ever after for very long, we will live. Together. Vibrantly and passionately. Fire to his ice. Ice to my fever.

But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.

You don't grieve love; you celebrate that you had it.

I have a sudden lump in my throat. I didn't know she felt that way about me. Most of the time I feel like I just bumble about and get lucky with the help of my amazing friends. The truth is, nothing I've ever done would have succeeded if I'd been alone. "It take all of us, Kat. Not just me.

That's the way it goes when the world falls apart. You never appreciate what you've got till it's gone.

As long as women walk this earth, I'll be a happy man. If they ever get wiped out, I'm done.

Because you still believe you can have everything, his dark eyes say. You can't. We have nothing. Only the current moment. Once you understand that, you know what's sacred and not, and never lose sight of it again.

For a moment I thought Mother and Da had told you, even though they hadn't told me." "No, lass. They didn't tell anyone. And maybe they were a bit heavy-handed, but you can approach this in one of two ways: You can be angry and spiteful and ruin your chances, or you can thank Providence and your da for fetching you the best of the best, Jillian." Jillian rolled her eyes. "If those men are the best, then it's the cloister for certain.

The preparation, cooking, and eating of food is a sacrament. Treating it as such has the potential to elevate the quality of our daily lives like nothing else.

Until she'd known him she'd never experienced sorcery. Never known what it was like to feel passion. For the sheer blinding alchemy of that she would be forever grateful. But being with him was oddly more. It was the taste of an orange, the smell of a rose, the touch of the first spring raindrop expanded and multiplied and folded over itself. The meaning, perhaps, of joy.

Don't focus on who let you down. Appreciate who lifted you up. Don't focus on who darkened your days. Appreciate who brightened them.

Seek out the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, what make you grateful, not hateful.

If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.

Collect moments not things.

You know what's just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds.