Quotes About Gratitude

Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shan't worry about it too much.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell, because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.

Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.