Quotes About Gratitude

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

A woman has to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

I have never been drunk, but I've often been overserved.

A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.