Quotes About Gratitude

Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same."

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

First health, then wealth, then pleasure, and do not owe anything to anybody.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, I kiss her feet.

The best things in life aren't things.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.