Quotes About Gratitude

Let's leave it for tonight. Is it a decent hour for two middle-aged people to go to bed?' He held out his hand for her. Half an hour later he exclaimed, 'My God, where did you learn that?' 'I read a book once,' she answered. 'Thank God for literate women,' he said fervently.

Listen to the Song of Life

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

How I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong—funny. Two rocks. What you did for me—wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive.

I have an amazing relationship with food.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall ] You waste life when you waste good food.

Why do they not teach you that time is a fingersnap and an eyeblink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? PAT CONROY, My Losing Season

You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn't such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening. Like there's more love and good thoughts and powerful things inside of you than one body can hold.

Life is very beautiful.

The gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Même si nos écrits n'avaient en moyenne pas d'autre résultat que la restitution, pour quelques-uns, de cette barque salvatrice qu'est la prière, nous devrions à Dieu de nous tenir pour profondément satisfait.

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence.